“We all have souls of different ages”
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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.
“Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.”
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“All I think of ever is that I love you.”
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“Art isn't meaningless… It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
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“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
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“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”
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“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
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“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.”
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“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
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“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”
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“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
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“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”
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