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Beauty Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

50 Beauty quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Bright unused beauty looks back from a mirror, hinting that true allure carries a hint of sadness. The author links beauty with poignancy and the fleeting nature of life, noting that self‑confidence can mask unhappiness. Illusions of beauty fade as youth gives way to loneliness and reflection.

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“My hair-- bob it!”

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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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“Bright unused beauty still plaugued her in the mirror.”

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I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

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“I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—”

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This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a…

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“Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.”

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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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“There was the union of his soul with Gloria's, whose radiant fire and freshness was the living material of which the dead…

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“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one- the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.”

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“That is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from…

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found,…

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“He felt that if he had a love he would have hung her picture just facing the tub so that, lost in…

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“He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he…

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“The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and…

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“For him time stood still and then every few years accelerated in a rush, like the quick re-wind of a film, but…

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“Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before…

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“Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that…

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“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men…They sit back…

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“And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is-- utterly Rosalind. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to…

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His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful…

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“She knew what he wanted, and gave it to him; not words, but a smile of warmth and delight — a smile…

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“She would be twenty-nine in February. The month assumed an ominous and inescapable significance—making her wonder, through these nebulous half-fevered hours whether…

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He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The…

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She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her…

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“One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairyland…

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“Her beauty was cool as this damp breeze, as the moist softness of her own lips.”

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Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains...

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Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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“I’m more beautiful than anybody else,” she said brokenly, “why can’t I be happy?”

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THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of…

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It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and…

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“You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like…

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“Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city…

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Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment…

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I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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“Life is a series of successful gestures...”

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“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face…

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“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

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“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men…

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

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“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up…

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What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -…

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“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven…

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“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine…

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