Nothing could have survived our life.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNobody 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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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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Women 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.
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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.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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