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.
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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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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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.
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