F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise (1920)

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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don't know.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

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There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

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For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

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Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

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Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

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I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

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