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• He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  Olivia Wilde

  Optimism, Fearless, Risk

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• Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Knowing, Males, Tools

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Struggle

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• Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Children, Students, Dangerous

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• Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

  Charles A. Murray

  Educational, Intellectual, Littles

  "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

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• I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I was raised on "I Love Lucy" and listening to the Grateful Dead and reading Jack Kerouac. They, to me, were all symbols of this very foreign sense of promise and movement. After all this time here I'm glad I still have it.

  Pico Iyer

  Reading, Grateful, California

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  States, Fixed, Endless

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• Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

  Hermann Broch

  Mother, Children, Kitsch

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• I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Men, Firsts

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• Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.

  John Carroll

  Hero, Winning, Boys

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• I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

  Laura Marling

  Jobs, Believe, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Reality, World Love

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• No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Romance, Age

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• The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Happiness, Sadness

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

  Kate Millett

  Happiness, True Love, Mean

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.37, Columbia University Press

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• She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Husband, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.180

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• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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• There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

  John McCain

  Space, Exploration, Certain

  "NASA likely to weather political scrutiny" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2003.

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• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Cold, Should, Unemotional

  The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

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• Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

  Thomas Mann

  Levels, Miserable, Hysterical

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.317, A&C Black

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• Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

  Brad Mehldau

  Music, Damaged Goods, Jazz

  "Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle And Endgame". Interview with Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 7, 2003.

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• I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Giving, Style

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• It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Art, Nonsense

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1950). “The Borzoi Turgenev”

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