“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― 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
“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
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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