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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 A new point of view occurred to me.
2 It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.
3 Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.
4 Michaelis had seen this too but it hadn't occurred to him that there was any special significance in it.
5 It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
6 It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this proximity, and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek.
7 As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness.
8 It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.
9 I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before--and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.