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

Zelda Fitzgerald

Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Appearance Close Deep Extraordinary Mystery Philosophy Reality 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
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Dreams Moon Shadow Vibration
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Beggar Bitter Earth Emotional Love
It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible
I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Dreams Forever Moon Play Radio Summer
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Doctor Innocent Order Pronunciation Sound
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 FITZGERALD

Achievement Experience Repeat Understand
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Advertisement Dreams Finding Growth Promise
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!
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Away Happiness Quite Smart
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

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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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Feeling Happiness Myself Responsible Way Young
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Live Love Myself Willing
Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Dangerous Funny Passionate People
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Appearance Complex Dreams Finding Growth Infinite Learning Perfection Play Promise

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