I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIt’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
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