I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
Interpretation
The speaker expresses a deep, intimate admiration for a person, preferring to keep that sentiment private.
This quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights the profound admiration and affection one can have for another person. The speaker's desire to keep this admiration hidden suggests that the beauty and wonder of the person they admire are too special to be shared with the world. It reflects a sense of protection over one's feelings and the unique bond that exists between them and the admired individual.
In practice
During a heartfelt toast at a wedding, one might quote this to convey deep affection for the spouse.
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.
I arise from dreams of thee_x000D_ _x000D_ In the first sweet sleep of night,_x000D_ _x000D_ when the winds are breathing low,_x000D_ _x000D_ and the stars are shining bright.
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.
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