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Quotation from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (spoken by Nick Carraway)

The Great Gatsby, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #64317 (1925 text))

Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel's last sentence.

Citation: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #64317 (1925 text)). (id the-great-gatsby-q8)

Portrait: The Great Gatsby Cover 1925 Retouched, Francis Cugat (cover art); Charles Scribner's Sons, Public domain.

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