The Romantic Egoists

"It was wonderful to sit with her head on my shoulder for hours and feel as I always have, even now, closer to her than to any other human being."

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She wanted her life shaped now, immediately.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Was she sincerely moved—or was she carried along by the wave of her own acting?

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams

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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

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I do love you, never anybody like you. But what have you got for me?

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

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I loved you once—for a year I thought you were the only person in the world. Why do I have to lose that? Why do I have to deny it or belittle it? It was there—it was me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Infidelity

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Sometimes you think you’re so much in love that your love could fill the biggest palace conceivable. Sometimes you haven’t got enough to fill one room.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Infidelity

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They were young and gravely passionate; they demanded everything and then yielded everything again in ecstasies of unselfishness and pride.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Lees of Happiness

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“I can love what it once was. What else is there for me to do?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Lees of Happiness

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It’s not life that counts, it’s the quaintness you bring to it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mr. Icky

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Her body, so frail and tender, was touching mine, her face was turned up to me, and there, suddenly, I could have kissed her at last.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Of The Belles

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Debutante

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I’m sorry I had such a devastating effect on you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flight and Pursuit

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He kissed her lips gently. 'That’ll do,' he said.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Image on the Heart

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She didn’t know whether this was love or not but she knew with all her heart and soul that she wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, On Your Own

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And a love letter should come like a fresh stream from the heart, with no leaf on its current.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Image on the Heart

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I’m a lost soul maybe—I don’t feel at all like I ought to feel.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Image on the Heart

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You’re beautiful," he whispers involuntarily.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lipstick- A College Comedy