“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
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“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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