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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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