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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDDon’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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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