Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLove is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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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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