The Beautiful and Damned Quotes.

11. "in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

12. "I don't care about truth. I want some happiness."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

13. "She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

14. "Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

15. "She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

16. "All I think of ever is that I love you."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

17. "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, The Beautiful and Damned

18. "I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth..."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

19. "And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

20. "How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned