I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.F. Scott Fitzgerald
I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors eyes a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsbys house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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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.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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