F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Profound Quotes, Promise Quotes

She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

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In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

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It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

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whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

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The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

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Every profound spirit needs a mask.

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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

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I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

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Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

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