The Great Gatsby Quotes - Page 15 | Just Great DataBase

He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her — that he was leaving her behind.

Non pretenderei troppo da lei" arrischiai."Non si può ripetere il passato.""Non si può ripetere il passato?" fece lui incredulo. "Ma certo che si può!

È invariabilmente triste guardare con occhi nuovi cose alle quali ci eravamo già adattati.

Por un momento el último rayo de sol cayó con una afectación romántica sobre su cara radiante; su voz me llevaba dejándome sin aliento conforme yo escuchaba...

up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had. She

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

Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space.

El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.

You can’t stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

like an angry diamond,

... always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." --- quoted by Evan Osnos to describe the rapidly urbanising China

Gatsby croyait en la lumière verte, en l'extatique avenir qui d'année en année recule devant nous. Il nous a échappé ! Qu'importe ! Demain nous courrons plus vite, nos bras s'étendront plus loin... Et un beau matin...C'est ainsi que nous avançons, barques luttant contre un courant qui nous rejette sans cesse vers le passé.

Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

about her

Anh muốn tìm lại một cái gì đó - một quan niệm về mình chăng - đã mất đi khi anh đem lòng yêu Daisy. Cuộc đời anh đã trở nên lộn xộn và bừa bãi từ ngày ấy, nhưng giá anh có thể dù chỉ một lần thôi trở lại một điểm xuất phát nào đấy và chầm chậm đi lại quãng đường đã qua, may ra anh sẽ tìm ra được cái đó là gì...

She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes. I

– Я, видишь ли, думаю, что все равно на свете ничего хорошего нет, – продолжала она убежденно. – И все так думают – даже самые умные, самые передовые люди. А я не только думаю, я знаю. Ведь я везде побывала, все видела, все попробовала. – Она вызывающе сверкнула глазами, совсем как Том, и рассмеялась звенящим, презрительным смехом. – Многоопытная и разочарованная, вот я какая.

Но в душе его постоянно царило смятение. Самые дерзкие и нелепые фантазии одолевали его, когда он ложился в постель.

Каждую ночь его воображение ткало все новые и новые узоры, пока сон не брал его в свои опустошающие объятия, посреди какой-нибудь особо увлекательной мечты.

В такую жару каждое лишнее движение было посягательством на общий запас жизненных сил.

I told that boy about the ice. These people! You have to keep after them all the time.

Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I'll say it whenever I want to Daisy!

I married him because I thought he was a gentleman. I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe.

The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.

Don't believe everything you hear, Nick.

I found out what your 'drug-stores' were. He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong.

What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car.

Oh, you want too much! I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.I did love him once – but I loved you too.