# Quote — F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

> Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:

- Author: [F.Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald.md)
- Book: [The Beautiful and Damned](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-beautiful-and-damned.md)
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