The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.
“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I...”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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