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Quotation from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he’s done.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (spoken by Monsignor Darcy)

This Side of Paradise, Book One, Ch. 3 (Project Gutenberg text)

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Darcy contrasts a personality, which can vanish in a long sickness, with a personage built from deeds.

Citation: "Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he’s done." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Ch. 3 (Project Gutenberg text). (id this-side-of-paradise-q4)

Portrait: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1929 photo portrait by Nickolas Muray) Cropped, Nickolas Muray, Public domain.

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