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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Better Dreams Estate Feeling Life Secret Woman
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Achievement Experience Repeat Understand
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Errors Heaven Life Listing Mathematics Spring Summer
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Action Analyze Annoy Explanation Myself
One illusion is as good as another.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Goodness Illusion Oneself
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Borrow Future Life Work Worry
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Live Love Myself Willing
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Alone Lose Love Management Presentation Simplicity
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Kind People Share Taste Weather
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Earth Eat Myself Result View
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Beggar Bitter Earth Emotional Love
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Dreams Moon Shadow Vibration
I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Be Yourself Imagination Myself Quality Wonderful
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Bone Light Ray Remember Shadow Yourself
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Existence Science Space

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