위대한 개츠비(The Great Gatsby)

The Great Gatsby / F. Scott. Fitzgerald / Penguin classics

 

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

—p. 7

 

                    Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

—p. 37

 

                    It faced—or seemed to face—the whole eternal 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. Precisely at that point in vanished.

—p. 49

 

                    Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

—p. 59

 

                    ‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.’

—p. 77

 

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

—p. 93

 

                    Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of singly men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

—p. 129