It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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.
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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 suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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