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Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there’s sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses. Beauty means the agony of sacrifice and the end of agony.

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“In a sense, this gradual renunciation of beauty was the second step after his disillusion had been made complete. He felt he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.”
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In a sense, this gradual renunciation of beauty was the second step after his disillusion had been made complete. He felt he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.”

- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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