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Fitzgerald's favorite passage from Conrad's preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus," about how the artist "appeals to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain...and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that kneats together the lonliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspiration, in illusion, in hope, in fear which binds men to each other, which binds all humanity---the dead to the living and the living to the unborn."

well, in order to put up the picture of your favorite flower, it comes along with the quote.