“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking, and takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti. The novel famously helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda Sayre's hand in marriage; its publication was her condition of acceptance.
“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
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