I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALDDeath is the only real elegance.
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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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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.
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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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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 don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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Death is the only real elegance.
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