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She yawned gracefully in my face.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

أنه لمحزن دائماً أن تنظر بعيون جديدة إلى أشياء انفقنا كثيراً من الطاقة في التكيف لها

Raflara doğru ilerledi Stoddart Lectures kitabın birinci cildi ile geri döndü. "Görüyor musunuz?" diye bağırdı muzaffer bir edayla, "İşte hakiki bir kitap. Ne kadar yanılmışım . Bu adam tam bir Belasco!1 Bu büyük bir zafer. Ne zevkli ne güzel bir seçim! Hem haddini bilip sayfaları da kesip azaltmamış. Daha ne istenir ki?"1 David Belasco (1853 - 1931) Amerikalı Oyun yazarı. Devasa bir kütüphaneye sahipti.

Mientras hablaba, el oficial la miraba de la forma en que toda chica sueña que alguna vez la miren".

Çok içen insanların yanında ayık kalmak her zaman faydalıdır. Her şeyden önce dilinizi bağlar, fazla gevezelik etmezsiniz. Daha da güzeli insanın kendi kusur ve yanlışlarını örtebilmesidir, nasılsa kimsenin sizi kimsenin sizi görecek hali olmaz. Zira görseler de umursamazlar.

Then Mr. McKee turned and continued on out the door. Taking my hat from the chandelier I followed. ‘Come to lunch some day,’ he suggested, as we groaned down in the elevator. ‘Where?’ ‘Anywhere.’ ‘Keep your hands off the lever,’ snapped the elevator boy. ‘I beg your pardon,’ said Mr. McKee with dignity, ‘I didn’t know I was touching it.’ ‘All right,’ I agreed, ‘I’ll be glad to.’ … I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands.

one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on YOU with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.

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In case there’s a fire or a flood, or any act of God.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity of the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’ —THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." 

Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.

Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.

molti tipi curiosi e reso vittima di non pochi inveterati scocciatori.

– А куда нам девать себя вечером? – воскликнула Дэзи. – И завтра, и послезавтра, и в ближайшие тридцать лет?– Пожалуйста, не впадай в меланхолию, – сказала Джордан. – С первым осенним холодком жизнь начнется сначала.– Да, но сейчас так жарко, – настаивала Дэзи чуть не со слезами. – И все как в тумане. Знаете что, давайте пойдем в город!

Well, there I was, ‘way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn’t care.

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He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American — that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

– У Дэзи нескромный голос, – заметил я. – В нем звенит… – Я запнулся.– В нем звенят деньги, – неожиданно сказал он. Ну конечно же. Как я не понял раньше. Деньги звенели в этом голосе – вот что так пленяло в его бесконечных переливах, звон металла, победная песнь кимвал… Во дворце высоком, беломраморном, королевна, дева золотая…

Непосредственная действительность напомнила о себе, не дав ему свалиться в бездну отвлеченных умствований.

– Хочу уехать. Слишком я зажился в этих местах.

Истината е, че Джей Гетсби от Уест Ег, Лонг Айлънд, се е родил от платоничното си схващане за самия себе си. Той бе син на бога - израз, който, ако означава нещо, означава именно това - и трябваше да върши същата работа, която върши небесният му баща, да служи на една широко разпространена вулгарна и евтина красота.

inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild,

You loved me too?" he repeated.

Es inevitablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos cosas a las que ya hemos aplicado nuestra propia capacidad de enfoque.

mas carregava o excesso de carne com sensualidade, como algumas mulheres.

Havia pagat molt car el fet de viure massa temps d'un sol somni.

epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Y así, con la luz del sol y la explosión espléndida de las hojas que crecían en los árboles como crecen las cosas en las películas a cámara rápida, tuve la certeza bien conocida de que la vida vuelve a empezar con el verano.

Tom y Daisy eran criaturas desconsideradas: hacían añicos las cosas y personas y luego volvían a sus dinero o a su enorme desconsideración, o a lo que fuese que los mantenía unidos, y dejaban que otros se encargaran de limpiar lo que ellos ensuciaban.

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.

Und während ich so dasaß und jener alten, unbekannten Welt nachgrübelte, dachte ich an das Wunder, dem Gatsby sich gegenübersah, als er zum ersten Mal das grüne Licht am Ende von Daisys Pier erkannte. Er hatte einen langen Weg hinter sich bis zu diesem blauen Rasen, und sein Traum muss ihm so nah erschienen sein, dass er nur noch danach zu greifen brauchte. Er wusste nicht, dass er bereits hinter ihm lag, irgendwo inmitten des unermesslichen Dunkels jenseits der Stadt, wo sich die düsteren Felder des Landes unter dem Nachthimmel sich dehnten.Gatsby glaubte an das grüne Licht, an die verheißungsvolle Zukunft, die Jahr für Jahr vor uns zurückweicht. Gestern noch ist sie uns entkommen, aber was macht das schon - morgen laufen wir schneller, strecken die Arme noch weiter aus... Und eines herrlichen Morgens ...So legen wir uns in die Riemen, rudern gegen den Strom, und fortwährend zieht es uns zurück in die Vergangenheit.

I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.

房子——可是显然她头脑里丝毫没有这种打算。至于汤姆，他在纽约有个女人这种事倒不足为怪，奇怪的是他会因为读了一本书而感到沮丧。不知什么东西在使他从陈腐的学说里摄取精神食粮，仿佛他那壮硕的体格的唯我主义已经不再能滋养他那颗唯我独尊的心了。 一路上小旅馆房顶上和路边汽油站门前已经是一片盛夏景象，鲜红的加油机一台台蹲在电灯光圈里。我

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. Myrtle

It was touching to see them together - it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way.

walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder. 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 for

It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.

communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile

so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him,

I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.