It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide o…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories, p.209, Simon and Schuster
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