Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWhy should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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