I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOther people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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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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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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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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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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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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