Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contribute…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). The Great Gatsby, p.29, Atlântico Press
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