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 FITZGERALDWhy 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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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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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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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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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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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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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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