“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.”
― Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
― Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
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