HUMAN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Finest specimens of human molars," he informed me.
2 It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
3 Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white plum tree.
4 When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
5 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 was him too, looking up and wondering.
6 When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
7 Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.