We all have souls of different ages.
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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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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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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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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