Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThings 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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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.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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