I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBegin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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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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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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