I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDExperience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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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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Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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.
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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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