Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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