The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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 are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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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 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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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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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 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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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.
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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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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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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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