The Romantic Egoists

"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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"After that reflowering of tenderness and passion each of them had returned into some solitary dream unshared by the other and what endearments passed between them passed, it seemed, from empty heart to empty heart, echoing hollowly the departure of what they knew at last was gone."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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"I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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"His arm was around her so tightly that she could hear the beating of his heart."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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"A kiss was a kiss — to be enjoyed to the utmost for its short moment."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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"It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


"Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each other’s hearts."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


"He had realized at last what he wanted — to kiss her again, to find rest in her great immobility. She was the end of all restlessness, all malcontent."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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"Her kiss was a cool rill flowing from her heart."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned


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