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F. Scott Fitzgerald writes that the world lives inside our hearts and can shrink or grow with our dreams. He talks about sleepless nights, the weight of fatigue, and how love never repeats itself. He also sees marriage as a performance, not just a backdrop.

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

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She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

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I want to do everything in the world with you.

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want it.”

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Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts…

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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living…

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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that…

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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be…

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You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in…

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the…

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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a…

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you…

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My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their…

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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,…

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were…

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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine…

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Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be…

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Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising…

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“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living…

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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had…

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And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded…

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I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and…

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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet,…

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He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that…

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it…

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“a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing”

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The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

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Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is…

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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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“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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