So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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 - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
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