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. ✨ 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.357, e-artnow
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