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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.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Amory Blaine, in This Side of Paradise, bk. 2, ch. 1 (1920).)
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Mon Dieu, hear the poet's prayer.
The romantic should be here.
The romantic should be there.
It ought to be everywhere.
But the romantic must never remain.
Mon Dieu, and must never again return.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Sailing After Lunch.")
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. The Catherine Wheel, in "The Remarkable Rocket," The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888).)
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My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
(Anita Brookner (b. 1938), British novelist, art historian. Rachel, in A Friend From England, ch. 10 (1987).
Referring to Michael Sandberg.)
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It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
(John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908), U.S. economist. The New Industrial State, ch. 3 (1967).)
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
(Edgar Z. Friedenberg (b. 1921), U.S. sociologist. Title chapter, The Vanishing Adolescent (1959).)
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