“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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