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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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The love of life is essentially as incommunicable as pain.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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Either one learns manners at home or the world teaches them with a whip, and we can hurt ourselves.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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remember that not everyone has had your advantages.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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Let's learn to show our friendship to people during their life and not after they're dead.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that's not the case, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

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A heart is a wealth that cannot be sold or bought, but that is given.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

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An soul is measured by the breadth of its desires, just as a cathedral is judged beforehand by the height of its towers.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

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The future tortures us and the past chains us. That's why the present escapes us.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

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Being stupid, selfish, and in good health, here are the three conditions required to be happy. But if you lack the first, you are lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

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One must wait when feeling desperate, and walk when waiting.