It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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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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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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I 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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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