it's just a bunch of words

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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of before I became President of the United States of America.

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As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.

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I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

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I’m a good person. In most ways. But I’m beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn’t count for anything very much, if your a bad person in one way.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Battles were won in wars that were sure to be lost

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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the ‘otherness’ we all experience.

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The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.