I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMaybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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One illusion is as good as another.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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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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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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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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