""So regen wir die Ruder, stemmen uns gegen den Strom"
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und treiben doch stetig zurück, dem Vergangenen zu." - Letzter Satz des Romans The Great Gatsby (1925), Inschrift auf dem Grab Fitzgeralds, deutsch von Walter Schürenberg. Blanvalet, Berlin 1953
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