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Monsignor Darcy quotes

A character in This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

7 quotes spoken by or about Monsignor Darcy, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
Narration · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 1
You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not
Monsignor Darcy · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 1
at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M.
Monsignor Darcy · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 3
Don’t worry about that; for you not posing may be the biggest pose of all.
Monsignor Darcy · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 3
No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
Monsignor Darcy · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 1
Don’t let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself
Monsignor Darcy · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book One, Chapter 3
Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman.
Monsignor Darcy · F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920), Book Two, Chapter 2

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