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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDDeath is the only real elegance.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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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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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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