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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOther people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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Nothing could have survived our life.
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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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