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Thursday, October 14, 2010

On a Large Personality, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A large personality is built on such a structure that we scarcely realize its dimensions while it is being built; it keeps up its monstrous development, flinging out as many unaccountable commitments as the limbs on an octopus, growing until we scarcely recognize its shadows- so large has it become beyond that of ordinary people.  Except we can recognize the dimensions of the shadow in the horizontal twilight of the coffin.
It becomes such a valuable thing that it is a pity when it is killed, and those nature lovers among us should watch its growth; it is difficult to reproduce scientifically; and if allowed to die, may not re-occur for many years."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

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