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July 31, 2023

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing 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 yet be determined to make them otherwise.



—F. Scott Fitzgerald
  American writer (1896-1940)


Source: “The Crack-Up” (essay)




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