I wanted to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
 F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers (1920). copy citation

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Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source Flappers and Philosophers
Topic world breath
Date 1920
Language English
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“They had reached the gate and she rested her elbow on it and dabbed furiously at her eyes.
"And then later, child, when you were sick I knelt all one night and asked God to spare you for me—for I knew then that I wanted more; He had taught me to want more. I wanted to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me. I saw you growing up, that white innocence of yours changing to a flame and burning to give light to other weaker souls. And then I wanted some day to take your children on my knee and hear them call the crabbed old monk Uncle Kieth."” source

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