If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then ther…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
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