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“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“We all have souls of different ages”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Things are sweeter when they're lost.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Compromising with events time moves along.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“January, the Monday of months....”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It always astonishes me when anybody does anything”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“going to work so as to forget that there was nothing worth working for”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“In perspective it was tremendous”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work,”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I'm a cynical idealist.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was the union of all times.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East

“He who travels far will often see things Far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, He is often accused of lying, For the obdurate people will not believe What they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I believe, Will give little credence to my song.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East: A Novel

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World