Death is the only real elegance.
ZELDA FITZGERALDSomething in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Oh, 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.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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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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