Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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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 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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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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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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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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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