The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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