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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Hope Money Myself Reading Sleep Youth
Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Absence Break Up Feeling I Love You Myself Night Thinking Yourself
They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Belief Faith Greatness Happiness Simplicity Spiritual Travel
Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Crowd Friendship Need Youth
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Kind People Share Taste Weather
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Errors Heaven Life Listing Mathematics Spring Summer
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Behavior Herself Refusal
And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Courage Feeling Lose Power Right Weakness World
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Endurance Low Quiet Share Time Woman
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Comfortable Excitement Happiness World
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 FITZGERALD

Alone Lose Love Management Presentation Simplicity
Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Live Memories Oneself Sharp
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

End Hang Loose Man
Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Ideas Ourselves People True
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Finding Information People Reading Trouble

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