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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDShe quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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