“It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald , book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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