Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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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.
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I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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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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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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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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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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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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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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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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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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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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Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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