“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“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
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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