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61.
“So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Identity
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Self-respect
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Work Ethic
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Loss
,
Human Nature
62.
“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Relationships
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Change
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Effort
,
Love
,
Human Nature
63.
“People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imitation
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Individuality
,
Human Nature
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Irony
,
Social Behavior
64.
“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Morality
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Class
,
Upbringing
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Human Nature
,
Social Commentary
65.
“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maturity
,
Adulthood
,
Difficulty
,
Growth
,
Human Nature
66.
“I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
,
Vulnerability
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Inexperience
,
Human Nature
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Self-awareness
67.
“Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Human Nature
,
Personality
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Metaphor
,
Observation
,
Simplification
68.
“They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Illusion
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Relationships
,
Human Nature
,
Idealization
69.
“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth
,
Aging
,
Innocence
,
Responsibility
,
Human Nature
70.
“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self-perception
,
Social Anxiety
,
Human Nature
,
Opinion
,
Psychology
71.
“Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Connection
,
Unity
,
Relationships
,
Human Nature
72.
“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. – The Great Gatsby.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
,
Loyalty
,
Human Nature
,
Relationships
,
Self-awareness
73.
“Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Exploration
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Class
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Resilience
,
Human Nature
,
Stereotypes
74.
“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin – but they don't, even you and I.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nihilism
,
Self-awareness
,
Hypocrisy
,
Human Nature
,
Philosophy
75.
“I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgiveness
,
Understanding
,
Perspective
,
Morality
,
Human Nature
76.
“The bottle of whiskey – the second one – was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.'”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol
,
Social Gathering
,
Abstinence
,
Human Nature
,
Contrast
77.
“It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mystery
,
Gossip
,
Intrigue
,
Reputation
,
Human Nature
78.
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol
,
Addiction
,
Progression
,
Human Nature
,
Warning
79.
“No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Honesty
,
Human Nature
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Cynicism
,
Truth
,
Metaphor
80.
“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Selfishness
,
Love
,
Human Nature
,
Contradiction
,
Relationships
81.
“The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time
,
Routine
,
Life Metaphor
,
Societal Norms
,
Human Nature
82.
“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emotion
,
Inner Turmoil
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Passion
,
Human Nature
,
Metaphor
83.
“Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them – their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Idleness
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Social Criticism
,
Human Nature
,
Contribution
,
Judgment
84.
“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol
,
Social Perception
,
Inhibition
,
Human Nature
,
Cultural Comparison
85.
“Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Optimism
,
Criticism
,
Power
,
Perspective
,
Human Nature
86.
“He dispensed starlight to casual moths.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Metaphor
,
Charisma
,
Attraction
,
Human Nature
,
Poetic Description
87.
“I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe – and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laziness
,
Comfort
,
Social Dynamics
,
Human Nature
,
Contradictory Desires
88.
“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Desire
,
Love
,
Self-awareness
,
Singularity Of Focus
,
Human Nature
89.
“The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing
,
Evolution
,
Humor
,
Human Nature
,
Attraction
90.
“Life was a damned muddle – a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of – everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life
,
Chaos
,
Metaphor
,
Fairness
,
Human Nature
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