“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.”
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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