I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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, 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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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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