PRESENCE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.
2 I think that, except for my presence, he would have taken one short glance beneath our own table.
3 I tried to go then, but they wouldn't hear of it; perhaps my presence made them feel more satisfactorily alone.
4 He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.
5 Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness--it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer.
6 Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.
7 He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil.
8 She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
9 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.