“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”
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The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after the Great War and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work generally is considered to be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.
“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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