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1 " I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
2 " I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby
3 " I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , This Side of Paradise
4 " Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Tender Is the Night
5 " I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
6 " You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. "
7 " They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine. "
8 " Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind? "
9 " It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. "
10 " It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. "
11 " So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , All the Sad Young Men (Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
12 " If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon
13 " So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. "
14 " I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. "
15 " They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. "
16 " Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. "
17 " I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. "
18 " The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. "
19 " I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. "
20 " Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. "