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not a portrait of a man but a distinct and dynamic personality, opinionated, contemptuous, functioning from within outward—a man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was
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“The particular weakness he indulged on this occasion was his need of excitement and stimulus from without.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Unknowingly she saw her own tragedies mirrored in his face.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“can almost look down the tracks and see you going but without you, dearest, dearest, I can't see or hear or feel or think. Being apart—whatever has happened or will happen to us—is like begging for mercy from a storm, Anthony; it's like growing old.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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