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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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