F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Honor Quotes

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

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mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use 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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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

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he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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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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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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