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F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter⁠—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning —
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald on hope

The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IX

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