It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon whi…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more, p.537, e-artnow
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