Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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 believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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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 love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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Father said conflict develops the character
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