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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDDeath is the only real elegance.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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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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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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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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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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