“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.”
— William Wordsworth, book The Prelude
Bk. I, l. 301.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
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