One illusion is as good as another.
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 am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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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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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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