Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.
F. Scott Fitzgerald · From the last page of The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald · From the last page of The Great Gatsby.
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Charles Dickens · Estella to Pip in the ruined garden of Satis House, eleven years on, in the novel's final chapter; the sentence before says "suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
Reinhold Niebuhr · The source reads: “Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.” · The Irony of American History (1952)
Percy Bysshe Shelley · The source reads: “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” · Ode to the West Wind (1819), l. 68
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