You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
Interpretation
This quote expresses admiration and affection for someone's unique qualities.
In this quote, F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights the allure and depth of a person who possesses a rare combination of beauty, intelligence, and virtue. The speaker's love is rooted in the recognition of these qualities, suggesting that true love involves appreciating the complexities and uniqueness of an individual.
In practice
During a romantic dinner, you could recite this quote to express your feelings to your partner.
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
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.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.
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