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“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde