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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

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No one should live beyond 30.

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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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