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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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"The moment of existence is miraculous."
"The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears."
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"Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees-he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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