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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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 greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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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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