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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

Zelda Fitzgerald

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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Doubt Expectation Herself Quiet Reason
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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Comfortable Excitement Happiness World
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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Bone Light Ray Remember Shadow Yourself
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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Courage Feeling Lose Power Right Weakness World
Nothing could have survived our life.
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Life One Liner Survive
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Believe Myself Worth
Death is the only real elegance.
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Death Elegant One Liner Reality
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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Beggar Bitter Earth Emotional Love
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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Alone Lose Love Management Presentation Simplicity
Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Appearance Close Deep Extraordinary Mystery Philosophy Reality True
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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End Hang Loose Man
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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Errors Heaven Life Listing Mathematics Spring Summer
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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Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Death Hope Money Myself Reading Sleep Youth
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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Finding Information People Reading Trouble
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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Away Happiness Quite Smart
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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Earth Eat Myself Result View
One illusion is as good as another.
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Goodness Illusion Oneself
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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Better Dreams Estate Feeling Life Secret Woman
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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Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
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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Beautiful Break Live Myself People Philosophy Popular Writing
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Doctor Innocent Order Pronunciation Sound
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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Endurance Low Quiet Share Time Woman
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Chance Life Love Point
Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Dangerous Funny Passionate People
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Behavior Herself Refusal
Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Dependent Hope Ideas People Perception

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