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F. Scott Fitzgerald quote #153 from The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

It is youths felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined futureflowers and gold girls and stars they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable unattainable young dream.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald quote #166 from The Beautiful and Damned

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it perhaps yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life it seemed must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream no one drifted except to maelstroms no one dreamed without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald quote #91 from This Side of Paradise

Amory sorry for them was still not sorry for himself - art politics religion whatever his medium should be he knew he was safe now free from all hysteria - he could accept what was acceptable roam grow rebel sleep deep through many nights...There was no God in his heart he knew his ideas were still in riot there was ever the pain of memory the regret for his lost youth - yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul responsibility and a love of life the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...He stretched out his arms to the crystalline radiant sky.I know myself he cried but that is all.
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