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“A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.” (The Beautiful and Damned Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She’s too pretty.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Experience is not worth the getting. It’s not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you–it’s a wall that an active you runs up against.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“He had never met anyone like her before. He sought her jauntily but earnestly to send him away; he didn’t want to fall in love. He wasn’t coming to see her any more–already she had haunted too many of his ways.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than anyone else he knows.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“His mind tired–tired with nothing, tired with everything, with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“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
The Beautiful and Damned
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“I don’t care about truth. I want some happiness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“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
The Beautiful and Damned
“In the pursuit of pleasure, they forgot the consequences and became damned souls.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“In this era, beauty is celebrated, but it ultimately leads to destruction.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Poetry is dying first. It’ll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“She wanted what most women want, but she wanted it much more fiercely and passionately.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“She was a beautiful fool, and he was a damned dreamer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“She was a dark, unenduring little flower – yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one – the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Their beauty masked their inner turmoil and damnation.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Their luxurious lifestyle was a facade, hiding their internal damnation.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“There are two kinds of people in this world—the beautiful and the damned.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
