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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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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Earth Eat Myself Result View
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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Beggar Bitter Earth Emotional Love
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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Endurance Low Quiet Share Time Woman
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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Be Yourself Imagination Myself Quality Wonderful
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Believe Myself Worth
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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Courage Feeling Lose Power Right Weakness World
Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Dependent Hope Ideas People Perception
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
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Experience Teaching Yourself
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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Alone Lose Love Management Presentation Simplicity
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Action Analyze Annoy Explanation Myself
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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Feeling Happiness Myself Responsible Way Young
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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Away Happiness Quite Smart
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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Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
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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Borrow Future Life Work Worry
We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Catch Deep Material Ourselves
One illusion is as good as another.
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Goodness Illusion Oneself
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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Beautiful Break Live Myself People Philosophy Popular Writing
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Earth Growth Life Purpose Right Soul
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Death Dreams Moon Shadow Vibration
Death is the only real elegance.
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Death Elegant One Liner Reality
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Existence Science Space
Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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Crowd Friendship Need Youth
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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Appearance Complex Dreams Finding Growth Infinite Learning Perfection Play Promise
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Chance Life Love Point
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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Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
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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Belief Faith Greatness Happiness Simplicity Spiritual Travel

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