I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWomen sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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One illusion is as good as another.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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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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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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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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