“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
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“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
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and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
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“El idealista es incorregible ; si se le arroja de su cielo, se hace del infierno un ideal. Creadle una decepción & veréis que no pone menos ardor en abrazar su decepción del que ponía poco antes en aferrarse a su esperanza. En la medida en que su inclinación pertenece a las grandes tendencias incurables de la naturaleza humana, puede provocar destinos trágicos & convertirse después en objeto de tragedias; en esto afecta a lo que hay de incurable, de inevitable, de irremisible en el destino & en el carácter humanos.”
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“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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