The Great Gatsby- Chapter 8 Quotes

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"There was an inexplicable amout of dust everywhere"

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"'Jay Gatsby' had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice"

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"He had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between"

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"He knew that he was in Daisy's house by a colossal accident"

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"He had no comfortable family standing behind him"

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"He had committed himslef to the following of a grail"

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"Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many cloths, and of Daisy, gleaming silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor"

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"Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season"

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"He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream"

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"A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about ... like the ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees"

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