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 FITZGERALDIt is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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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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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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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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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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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.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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