The Romantic Egoists

"Let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond As Big As The Ritz


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"Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond As Big As The Ritz


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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond As Big As The Ritz


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"It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future- flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only pre-figurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond As Big As The Ritz


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"His love for her returned and settled placidly on his heart. She was his- she would go with him to share his dangers. He put his arms about her and kissed her fervently. After all, she loved him; she had saved him, in fact."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond As Big As The Ritz


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