The Romantic Egoists

"She turned and he followed her. She had been away — he could have wept at the wonder of her return. She had passed through enchanted streets, doing things that were like provocative music. All mysterious happenings, all fresh and quickening hopes, had gone away with her, come back with her now."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"They wandered about the house, each feeling intimately the presence of the other; they sat on the same side of the table like honeymooners; they were intensely absorbed, intensely happy."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Lees of Happiness


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"He sailed home on the wings of desperate excitement, quite resolved to fan this spark of romance, no matter how big the blaze or who was burned."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Four Fists


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"You’re the prettiest girl I ever knew.” It was almost a lullaby, as he said it."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar


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"Perhaps she too would see the sunset and pause for a moment, turning, remembering, before he faded with her sleep into the past. This night’s dusk would cover up forever the sun and the trees and the flowers and laughter of his young world."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing


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"She said “kiss me,” she said “I’d like to marry you,” she said “I love you”— she said — nothing."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"They kiss — definitely and thoroughly."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"Her eyes appeared to regard him out of many thousand years: all emotion she might have felt, all words she might have uttered, would have seemed inadequate beside the adequacy of her silence, ineloquent against the eloquence of her beauty."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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"Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?"  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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"He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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