F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Mean Quotes

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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The rich are different from us.

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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

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Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

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