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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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The mind is the great poem of winter, the man,
Who, to find what will suffice,
Destroys romantic tenements
Of rose and ice....
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Man and Bottle.")
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
(Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783-1842), French author. "Various Fragments," sct. 10, De l'Amour (1822).)
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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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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
(Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, rev. 1951).)
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Hero, episode 26, New Directions (1944).
Stephen Daedalus is the speaker in this passage from Joyce's unfinished manuscript, Stephen Hero. Less than half the manuscript exists, and it was published only after Joyce's death.)
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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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For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. September 1913 (l. 6-8). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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