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.
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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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