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12/15/10

I find that this quote from The Great Gatsby goes along very well with a situation I was recently in. It describes how easy it is to build up a view of someone that is not entirely true when you have admired them in the past and spent some time apart. I had not realized until I read this that others have done the same thing. It made me feel like less of an idiot.

"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 will store up in his ghostly heart."