“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald , book The Beautiful and Damned

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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