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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Bad Hands Lost Myself
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Competition Hold Mindset Yourself
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Intimate Myself Party Privacy Small
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Life Myself Variety
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Desire Himself Kiss Man Wife Woman
I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Heart Neglect Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Day Generosity Live Night Smile Worth
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Herself Philosophy
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Dreams Fantasy Greatness Illusion Ourselves Pain Result
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Criticism Life Opportunity Remember Yourself
Never confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Activity One Liner
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Kind Love World
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Heart Oneself Place Yourself
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Fake Substitution Time Yourself
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Combination Intelligence Love Mystery Rare Yourself
The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Himself Oneself Reason Writing
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Better Myself Word Yourself
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Existence Eyes Small World Yourself
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Argument Intelligence See Side Validation
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Experience Mistake Name People
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Blank Fall Life Lonely World
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Himself Listening Patience Stars Wait
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Book Myself People Value
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Close Kiss Love Relationship Romance Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Cost Day Light Morning Night Smile Worth

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