Shriya

“For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It occurred to him that all strongly accentuated classes, such as the military, divided men into two kinds: their own kind—and those without.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“The particular weakness he indulged on this occasion was his need of excitement and stimulus from without.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“He was at once the commonest and the most remarkable product of civilization. He was nine out of ten people that one passes on a city street—and he was a hairless ape with two dozen tricks. He was the hero of a thousand romances of life and art—and he was a virtual moron, performing staidly yet absurdly a series of complicated and infinitely astounding epics over a span of threescore years.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned