For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage.…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white! ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, p.115, Cambridge University Press
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white! ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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