Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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