The Romantic Egoists

The Romantic Egoists

"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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#the lees of happiness #F. Scott Fitzgerald

"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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#The Four Fists #F. Scott Fitzgerald

"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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#f. scott fitzgerald #dice brassknuckles and guitar

"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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#f. scott fitzgerald #the sensible thing

"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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#F. Scott Fitzgerald #winter dreams

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

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#F. Scott Fitzgerald #this side of paradise

"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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#f. scott fitzgerald #the beautiful and damned

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

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#F. Scott Fitzgerald #the beautiful and damned

"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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#F. Scott Fitzgerald #Tender is the Night

"She told him in a dozen ways, of which the best was without words, how she had missed him. Her emotion reassured him, promised his anxious heart that everything would be all right." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

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#f. scott fitzgerald #the sensible thing