I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMaybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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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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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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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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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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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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