

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“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.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“One thin's sure and nothing's surer
The rich get richer and the poor get — children.
In the meantime,
In between time...”
― The Great Gatsby
The rich get richer and the poor get — children.
In the meantime,
In between time...”
― The Great Gatsby

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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