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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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The Beautiful and Damned The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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