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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation- the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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ambivalent
hopeless
hopelessness
implausible
impossible
inner-conflict
intelligence
opposing-views
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.
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inner-conflict
self
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
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He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.
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depression
inner-conflict
javert
les-misérables
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Victor Hugo |