F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Hero

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Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
In our daily life, we complain about the fact that we face too much trouble whenever we try to build or wants to do something new. However, the truth about life is always same; those are the person who has done something remarkable in life; who had faced troubles and did the highest sacrifices.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the middle of the crisis, you can do two things either you die with regrets or you faced it and survived it like a legend. Even the gold comes to its existence when it gets the highest heats. Falls and failures are your pure source of inspiration.
First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink,

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