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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
Death is the only real elegance.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Elegant One Liner Reality
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Live Love Myself Willing
And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Courage Feeling Lose Power Right Weakness World
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
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Dreams Moon Shadow Vibration
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

End Hang Loose Man
Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Ideas Ourselves People True
Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Dependent Hope Ideas People Perception
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 can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Hope Money Myself Reading Sleep Youth
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Capability Heart Hold Measurement Poet
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

I Love You Life Myself Yourself
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Beautiful Break Live Myself People Philosophy Popular Writing
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!
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Away Happiness Quite Smart
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doctor Innocent Order Pronunciation Sound

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