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 FITZGERALDOh, 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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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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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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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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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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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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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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