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 FITZGERALDShe wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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