It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). The Great Gatsby, p.38, Atlântico Press
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