I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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.
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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.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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