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?
ZELDA FITZGERALDSomething in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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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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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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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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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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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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