In honor of the book’s 90th anniversary.
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1. "I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
2. "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."
3. "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
4. "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
5. "He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night."
6. "You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
7. "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
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8. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
9. "Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."
10. "They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another."
11. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
12. "But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor."
13. "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
14. "I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified."
15. "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion."
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