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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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