I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aging, Future, Apprehension, Time, Life Stages
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“Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Connection, Unity, Relationships, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Connection, Unity, Relationships, Human Nature“I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Vulnerability, Inexperience, Human Nature, Self-awareness
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Vulnerability, Inexperience, Human Nature, Self-awareness“What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mystery, Music, Introspection, Future, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Mystery, Music, Introspection, Future, Human Nature“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Attraction, Nature Metaphor, Perception, Compliment
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Attraction, Nature Metaphor, Perception, Compliment“The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sensuality, Nature, Immersion, Pleasure, Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald Sensuality, Nature, Immersion, Pleasure, Description“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Uniqueness, Relationships, Human Experience, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Uniqueness, Relationships, Human Experience, Wisdom“It takes two to make an accident.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Responsibility, Relationships, Accidents, Human Nature, Blame
F. Scott Fitzgerald Responsibility, Relationships, Accidents, Human Nature, Blame“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Independence, Human Relationships, Self-reliance, Perspective, Philosophy
F. Scott Fitzgerald Independence, Human Relationships, Self-reliance, Perspective, Philosophy“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Loneliness, Life, Death, Human Struggle
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Loneliness, Life, Death, Human Struggle“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Empathy, Detachment, Human Nature, Urban Life, Emotional Distance
F. Scott Fitzgerald Empathy, Detachment, Human Nature, Urban Life, Emotional Distance“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
F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgiveness, Understanding, Perspective, Morality, Human Nature“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
F. Scott Fitzgerald Maturity, Adulthood, Difficulty, Growth, Human Nature“In the end, we were all just humans. Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Humanity, Healing, Disillusionment, Universal Experience
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Humanity, Healing, Disillusionment, Universal Experience“There is a moment – Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word – something that makes it worth while.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Anticipation, Intimacy, Human Connection, Beauty Of Life
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Anticipation, Intimacy, Human Connection, Beauty Of Life“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excess, Alcohol, Indulgence, Contradiction, Pleasure
F. Scott Fitzgerald Excess, Alcohol, Indulgence, Contradiction, Pleasure“This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding – it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty, Desire, Dreams, Aesthetics, Perception
F. Scott Fitzgerald Beauty, Desire, Dreams, Aesthetics, Perception“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol, Perception, Coping Mechanism, Life’s Illusions, Toast
F. Scott Fitzgerald Alcohol, Perception, Coping Mechanism, Life’s Illusions, Toast“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Existentialism, Absurdity, Self-perception, Nihilism, Defiance
F. Scott Fitzgerald Existentialism, Absurdity, Self-perception, Nihilism, Defiance“The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption – and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Appearances, Dreams, Corruption, Farewell, Contrast
F. Scott Fitzgerald Appearances, Dreams, Corruption, Farewell, Contrast“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature, Progress, Human Ambition, Wonder, American Dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald Nature, Progress, Human Ambition, Wonder, American Dream