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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLook closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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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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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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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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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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