Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
ZELDA FITZGERALDThey 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
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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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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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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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