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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 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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The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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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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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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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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The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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