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The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

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The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works Quotes

“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.”

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

“Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.”

“If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.”

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”

“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”

“The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility”