DAY 278

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
The Great Gatsby
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

Is the human desire to reach for an unattainable illusion foolish or great?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Watching Gatsby reach endlessly toward that distant, glimmering green light, knowing it will shatter, left my heart aching. Fitzgerald portrays the tragic beauty of a man who, amid hollow materialism, throws everything he has into a single dream. He asks how the innocence of believing in an illusion doomed to fail, and charging toward it all the same, can paradoxically make us so great.

— ONGO · Curator
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"우리는 조류를 거슬러 가는 배처럼, 끊임없이 과거로 밀려나면서도 계속 앞으로 나아간다."

🌱Apply It Today

Set aside every realistic calculation and odds of success, and write in your journal one pure, single-minded goal you simply want to pour your whole heart into.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

無爲而化
Flow in the Quiet
무위이화 · effortless flow
Listen
← View all 365 books