The Romantic Egoists

"She turned and he followed her. She had been away — he could have wept at the wonder of her return. She had passed through enchanted streets, doing things that were like provocative music. All mysterious happenings, all fresh and quickening hopes, had gone away with her, come back with her now."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"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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"This color and the mobility of her mouth gave a continual impression of flux, of intense life, of passionate vitality — balanced only partially by the sad luxury of her eyes."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"She communicated her excitement to him, lavishly, deeply, with kisses that were not a promise but a fulfillment."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"A million phrases of anger, pride, passion, hatred, tenderness fought on his lips. Then a perfect wave of emotion washed over him, carrying off with it a sediment of wisdom, of convention, of doubt, of honor. This was his girl who was speaking, his own, his beautiful, his pride."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"First love — this was only first love! What must love itself in its fullness, its perfection be. He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal, undesirous medley of ecstasy and peace, would be unrecapturable forever."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"The helpless ecstasy of losing himself in her was opiate rather than tonic."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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"He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving—but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams


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