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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

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The rich are different from us.

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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

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And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.

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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

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Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

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