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The Bee Sting

by Paul Murray

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“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future - flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

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“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

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“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

tags: travel

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“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: birth-of-desire, birth-of-ideas, contrast, feel-inspired, get-ideas, get-inspired, inspiration, where-ideas-come-from

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