We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALDNobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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.
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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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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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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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