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 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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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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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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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