F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Eye Quotes, Air Quotes

He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

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It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

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Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

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She knew few words and believed in none.

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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

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