How strange to have failed as a social creature

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). A Life in Letters, p.773, Simon and Schuster
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