I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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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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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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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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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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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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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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