You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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