F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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There are no second acts in American lives. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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