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 FITZGERALDOh, 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!
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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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 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, 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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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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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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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