"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."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.“
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
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