Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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