You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss 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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him 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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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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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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