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.
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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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