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 FITZGERALDNobody 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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.
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