His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it f…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Unabridged): A Tale of the Jazz Age by the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, e-artnow
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