“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
Permalink: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nick writes this at the end of his summer in West Egg, and it is the moment the novel admits that nothing has really changed. The sentence works for anyone whose own renewal keeps arriving slightly too late, in the wrong season.
Source: The Great Gatsby