I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself t…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.
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