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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.