There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without t…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal-- ✨ 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.308, e-artnow
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