For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)
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