The Romantic Egoists

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


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"It’s been so perfect — you and I. So like a dream that I’d longed for and never thought I’d find."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"The sudden dawns we laughed to greet,
That all could see, that none could share,
Will be but dawns,and if we meet
We shall not care."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"For the first time I regret all the other kisses; now I know how much a kiss can mean."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"They were together constantly, for lunch, for dinner, and nearly every evening- always in a sort of breathless hush, as if they feared that any minute the spell would break and drop them out of this paradise of rose and flame."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"I was young, for I could turn again to you, most finite and most beautiful, and taste the stuff of half-remembered dreams, sweet and new on your mouth."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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"I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise


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