The Beautiful and Damned Quotes

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“Things are sweeter when they're lost.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving itself.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:existenceconsciousness

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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