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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Ideas Ourselves People True
Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Crowd Friendship Need Youth
I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Hope Money Myself Reading Sleep Youth
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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Away Happiness Quite Smart
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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Achievement Experience Repeat Understand
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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Earth Eat Myself Result View
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Appearance Complex Dreams Finding Growth Infinite Learning Perfection Play Promise
Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Dreams Moon Shadow Vibration
Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Dependent Hope Ideas People Perception
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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Body Experience Finding Mindset Nurture Solace
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Comfortable Excitement Happiness World
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doubt Expectation Herself Quiet Reason
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Action Analyze Annoy Explanation Myself
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Errors Heaven Life Listing Mathematics Spring Summer

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