The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.
 F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920). copy citation

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Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source This Side of Paradise
Topic love weakness failing
Date 1920
Language English
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“AMORY: Rosalind, you can't be thinking of marrying some one else. Tell me! You leave me in the dark. I can help you fight it out if you'll only tell me.
ROSALIND: It's just—us. We're pitiful, that's all. The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.
AMORY: (Grimly) Go on.
ROSALIND: Oh—it is Dawson Ryder. He's so reliable, I almost feel that he'd be a—a background.
AMORY: You don't love him.
ROSALIND: I know, but I respect him, and he's a good man and a strong one.” source

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