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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDShe wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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