“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.”
― Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity
― Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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