Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOne illusion is as good as another.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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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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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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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 believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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