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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

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Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

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When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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