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.
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 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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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