Babylon revisited by Scott Fitzgerald:
On how in the same way you devalue, you will be devalued
“How do you find conditions in America?”
“He´s in Paris, but he doesn´t come here anymore.”
“ I was astonished how much she´s grown in ten months”
“He wanted them to initiate the discussion of what they knew had brought him Paris”
“A great wave of protectiveness went over him.”
“He believed in character, he wanted to jump back a whole generation and trust in character again as the eternally valuable element.”
“He was curious to see Paris by night with clearer and more judicious eyes than those of other days.”
“I honestly believe he´s sober, Dunc.”
“They liked him because he was functioning, because he was serious. (…) He was stronger than they were now, because they wanted to draw a certain sustenance from his strength.”
“She was already an individual with a code of her own, and Charlie was more and more absorbed by the desire of putting a little of himself into her before she crystallized utterly.”
“Have you got a picture of her? Yes, I think so.”
“I suppose you know what I want to see you about, why I really came to Paris.”
“How long are you going to stay sober, Charlie? Permanently, I hope.”
“(…) But she had lived for a long time with a prejudice, a prejudice founded on a curious disbelief.”
“It´s something you´ll have to square with your own conscience.”
“He woke up feeling happy. The door of the world was open again.”
“She just remembers one night.”
“How many weeks or months of dissipation to arrive at that condition of utter irresponsability.”
“It´s a great change.”
