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“گتسبی به چراغ سبز ایمان داشت، به آینده لذت‌ناکی که سال‌به‌سال از جلوی ما عقب‌تر می‌رود. اگر این بار از چنگ ما گریخت، چه باک، فردا تندتر خواهیم دوید و دست‌هایمان را درازتر خواهیم کرد و سرانجام یک بامداد خوش...”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“El habitante de las ciudades es lo que ven en él los ojos de los demás.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“הוא חמק מאיתנו אז, אבל אין זה משנה - מחר נרוץ מהר יותר, נושיט רחוק יותר את זרועותינו... ובוקר בהיר אחד -
כך אנחנו מתאמצים לחתור, סירות נגד הזרם, נישאים אחור ללא הרף, אל העבר”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Así que me fui y lo dejé allí, a la luz de la luna, vigilando la nada.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“¿Para qué hacer grandes cosas si podía divertirme más contándole lo que iba a hacer?”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning —--”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Su vida había sido confusión y desorden desde entonces, pero si lograba volver a un determinado punto de partida y repetirlo todo muy despacio, descubriría que era exactamente lo que había perdido...”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Life is too huge and complex. The world is so overgrown that it can’t lift its own fingers.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Por encima de todos desde lo alto de la escalinata de su casa, mira su mundo inútil y efímero.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I want to be admired, Kerry.'

'You're thinking too much about yourself.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Daisy empezó a cantar, a acompañar la música con un susurro rítmico y ronco, y de cada palabra extraía un significado que nunca había tenido y que jamás volvería a tener.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“La capacidad de ilusión, el sueño de otra vida posible.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“She was the only person he ever met who could look up passages and quotations to show him in the middle of conversation, and yet not be irritating to distraction. She did it constantly, with such serious enthusiasm that he grew fond of watching her golden hair bent over a book, brow wrinkled so little at hunting her sentence”
― Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher...than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.’ ‘Then you blame it on the press?’ ‘Absolutely.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Begin with an individual, and before you know it it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created -- nothing.”
― Scott Fitzgerald

“Nuestras vidas se definen por las oportunidades, incluso las que perdemos”
― Scott Fitzgerald

“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created -- nothing.”
― Scott Fitzgerald

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”
― Scott Fitzgerald

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The world exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or small as you want.”
― Scott Fitzgerald

“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—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...”
― Scott Fitzgerald

“Imagining that I, too, was hurrying toward gaiety and sharing in their intimate excitement, I wished them well”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
― Scott Fitzgerald

“Y así con el sol y las grandes explosiones de hojas que crecen en los árboles, tenía esa familiar convicción de que la vida comenzaba de nuevo con el verano.”
― Scott Fitzgerald