I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIt’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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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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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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