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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald 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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald 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 FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald 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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald 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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald
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