Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Topic

Nature of life Adversity

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.