Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature, p.310, VM eBooks
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