The Romantic Egoists

"A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"It was a cold fall day, with fire in the room and her cheeks flushed. Now and then she moved and he changed his arm a little, and once he kissed her dark shining hair."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed — that voice was a deathless song."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"So we drove on toward death in the cooling twilight."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"‘Don’t be morbid,’ Jordan said. ‘Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.’"  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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