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“It never ocurred to him that he was a passive thing, acted upon by an influence above and beyond Gloria, that he was merely the sensitive plate on which the photograph was made. Some gargantuan photographer had focused the camera on Gloria and Snap! - the poor plate could but develop, confined like all things to its nature.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed”
― Algernon Blackwood The Willows

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