But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around h…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down. ✨ The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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