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The Beautiful and Damned quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“two souls are sometimes created together and . . . in love before they're born.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you—it's a wall that an active you runs up against.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“She was beautiful—but especially she was without mercy.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“life is 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.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.” 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
“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost—something's left behind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Things are sweeter when they're lost.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“We all have souls of different ages” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“She was dazzling—alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me you'd better go.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one—the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“All I think of ever is that I love you” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Listlessly Anthony dropped into a chair, his mind tired—tired with nothing, tired with everything, with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving itself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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