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91.
“You can love more than just one person, can't you?”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Polyamory
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Human Nature
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Relationships
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Questioning
92.
“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adversity
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Human Nature
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Pretense
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Vulnerability
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Self-control
93.
“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence
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Circumstance
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Adaptability
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Human Nature
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Perspective
94.
“Breathing dreams like air.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dreams
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Aspiration
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Metaphor
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Human Nature
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Inspiration
95.
“But the brilliance, the versatility of madness is akin to the resourcefulness of water seeping through, over, and around a dike.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madness
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Adaptability
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Metaphor
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Resilience
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Human Nature
96.
“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Experience
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Growth
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Life Philosophy
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Action
,
Human Nature
97.
“I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gratitude
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Atheism
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Belief
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Perspective
,
Human Nature
98.
“It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth
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Future
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Imagination
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Present Moment
,
Human Nature
99.
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Shame
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Storytelling
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Human Nature
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Secrets
,
Narrative
100.
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Experience
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Innocence
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Desire
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Repetition
,
Human Nature
101.
“Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change
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Progress
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Inevitability
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Human Nature
,
Intentions
102.
“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Celibacy
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Spirituality
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Self-control
,
Human Nature
,
Depth
103.
“Action is character.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Behavior
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Identity
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Philosophy
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Human Nature
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Self-definition
104.
“Human sympathy has its limits.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Empathy
,
Human Nature
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Limitations
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Social Interaction
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Emotional Capacity
105.
“You can't repeat the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time
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Nostalgia
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Change
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Regret
,
Human Nature
106.
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagination
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Creativity
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Limitation
,
Human Nature
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Self-awareness
107.
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory
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Emotion
,
Human Nature
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Past
,
Inner Life
108.
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Admiration
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Secrecy
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Possession
,
Human Nature
109.
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wealth
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Class Divide
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Social Commentary
,
Human Nature
,
Perception
110.
“Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty
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Femininity
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Potential
,
Description
,
Human Nature
111.
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Honesty
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Respect
,
Human Nature
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Social Interactions
,
Criticism
112.
“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Authenticity
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Relationships
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Self-protection
,
Human Nature
,
Emotion
113.
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emotions
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Desires
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Self-awareness
,
Human Nature
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Passion
114.
“The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death
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Vitality
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Description
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Loss
,
Human Nature
115.
“Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty
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Vitality
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Description
,
Human Nature
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Perception
116.
“Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change
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Ideas
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Ego
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Dissatisfaction
,
Human Nature
117.
“The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pain
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Illusions
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Dreams
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Self-inflicted Suffering
,
Human Nature
118.
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sobriety
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Social Strategy
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Self-control
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Observation
,
Human Nature
119.
“It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Insomnia
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Individuality
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Hopes
,
Human Nature
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Sleep
120.
“No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depth
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Exploration
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Human Nature
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Pessimism
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Metaphor
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