We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I don’t care about truth. I want some happiness.

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If truth is the end of life, happiness is the mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment.

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So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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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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He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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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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I want to marry Anthony, because husbands are so often ‘husbands’ and I must marry a lover.

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He felt that to succeed here the idea of success must grasp and limit his mind.

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Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

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