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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 FITZGERALD

Hard Hurt Life People Worst
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Bad Hands Lost Myself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Day End Myself Time
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Confusion Defeat
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Determination Hope Oneself Pain
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Desire Himself Kiss Man Wife Woman
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Cost Day Light Morning Night Smile Worth
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Intimate Myself Party Privacy Small
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Body Deep Mindset
I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Habit Kiss Myself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Feeling Herself Presence Pressure Right
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Reminder Smoking Yourself
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Himself Listening Patience Stars Wait
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Intimacy Recover
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Blank Fall Life Lonely World
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Persistence Start
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Dreams Fantasy Greatness Illusion Ourselves Pain Result
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Combination Intelligence Love Mystery Rare Yourself
I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beginning End Love Myself Relationship
I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Myself Reminder Time Tired
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Criticism Life Opportunity Remember Yourself
You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Known Love Myself Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Comedy Hero Life Thinking Tragedy Writing Yourself
I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Heart Neglect Yourself
Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Dreams Let Go Love Myself Relationship

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