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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDThey 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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 can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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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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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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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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 don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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?
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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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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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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