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

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Încercăm să ne alegem mijloacele și apoi luăm ce putem – și ne mai și bucurăm.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Douăzeci și cinci e prea cinică și sofisticată; treizeci e numai bună pentru paloarea excesulu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that s...
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Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, mo...
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even tha...
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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living...
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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...
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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene...
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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come acros...
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I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b...
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rare...
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...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and sa...
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There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't...
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Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do...
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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the worl...
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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
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And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first ...
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Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.
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Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem...
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
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If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ...
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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...
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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch ca...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't h...
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I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.
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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own ...
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I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with...
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Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a pu...
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If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arran...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the w...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment o...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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