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 FITZGERALDIt is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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