Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDOne should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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