I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to d…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature, p.204, VM eBooks
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