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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Sep 30, 2025
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .
Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.
the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?
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