It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
Interpretation
Life is about love and connections with others.
This quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the essence of life revolves around the relationships we build and the affection we share with others. It captures the idea that experiences of love, whether romantic or platonic, form the core of our existence and contribute significantly to our sense of fulfillment and happiness.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of relationships, one could say, 'As F. Scott Fitzgerald beautifully put it, it's all life is - just going 'round kissing people.'
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
If I could for a moment just inspire you to love yourself, that would be worth EVERYTHING
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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