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

Zelda Fitzgerald

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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
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
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
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Age People Sexual Significant
One illusion is as good as another.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Goodness Illusion Oneself
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
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Earth Growth Life Purpose Right Soul
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
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doctor Innocent Order Pronunciation Sound
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
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doubt Expectation Herself Quiet Reason
Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Live Memories Oneself Sharp
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Capability Heart Hold Measurement Poet
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
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Experience Teaching Yourself
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

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