Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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I 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.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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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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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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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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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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