In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.


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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne a...
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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sa...
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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Încercăm să ne alegem mijloacele și apoi luăm ce putem – și ne mai și bucurăm.
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Douăzeci și cinci e prea cinică și sofisticată; treizeci e numai bună pentru paloarea excesulu...
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Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
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There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is...
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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that s...
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Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, mo...
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even tha...
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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living...
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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...
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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
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Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene...
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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come acros...
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I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b...
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it w...
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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rare...
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...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and sa...
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There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't...
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Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do...
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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the worl...
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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...
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And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first ...
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Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.
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Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem...
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
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If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ...
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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...
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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
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It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch ca...
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Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't h...
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I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.
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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put t...
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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own ...
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I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a w...
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...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with...
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Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a pu...
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If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arran...
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the w...
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[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment o...
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day.
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