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No amount of fire or freshness can challange what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.

'Look here, old sport,' he broke out surprisingly, 'what`s your opinion of me, anyhow?'A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.

'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you meet somebody as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will', she answered. 'I hate careless people. That`s why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

His heart beat 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 for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

Det som gjorde at jeg midlertidig mistet interessen for andre menneskers overfladiske sorger og kortvarige gleder, var alt det som snyltet på Gatsby, det triste vrakgodset som fløt i hans drømmers kjølvann.