“Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, book Tender Is the Night

Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)
Source: Tender Is the Night

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