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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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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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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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