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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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Himself Listening Patience Stars Wait
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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Live Occupation People Space
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Fake Substitution Time Yourself
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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Ability Competition Hold Mindset Yourself
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Cave Hide Ourselves
Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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Essence Forget Yourself
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Confusion Defeat
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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Cost Day Light Morning Night Smile Worth
She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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Forever Herself Himself Safety
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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Myself People Secret Talk Wonderful
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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Eyes Gorgeous Herself Mindset Mirror Sadness
We all have souls of different ages.
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Age Different Soul
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Action Better Myself Word Yourself
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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Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Heart Oneself Place Yourself
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Heart Oneself Place
I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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Habit Kiss Myself
Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Care Cry Fire 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.
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Day End Myself Time
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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Existence Eyes Small World Yourself
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Love Person Praise Yourself
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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Beautiful Literature Lonely Yourself
You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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Block Book Reading Side Yourself
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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Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
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
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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Intimate Myself Party Privacy Small
When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Breathe Myself Presence Quite Right

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