One illusion is as good as another.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAll 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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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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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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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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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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.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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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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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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