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 FITZGERALDBeing 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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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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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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