F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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