There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.
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Aphorisms by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase: "I love you."
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
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I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Merlin went up-stairs very quietly at nine o'clock. When he was in his room and had closed the door tight he stood by it for a moment, his thin limbs trembling. He knew now that he had always been a fool.
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I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.
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It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.
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But his eyes were slightly faded for the many days left without a lick of paint under the sun and rain.
from the book "" by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Posted by: Davide Castellani
Through words one can destroy people.
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