Desire Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

““this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world””

F Scott Fitzgerald

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“Whenever you feel like criticising any one, just remember that all of the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

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Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

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“I'm paralyzed with happiness”

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I love her and that´s the beginning of everything.

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“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.An author…

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“the room had grown smothery. He wanted to be out in some cool and bitter breeze, miles above the cities, and to live serene…

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“Man kan inte återskapa sitt förflutna (s. 117).”

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I love her and that's the beginning of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin…

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And in the end, we're all just humans, drunk on the idea that love - only love - could heal our brokenness.

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Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented…

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