Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
ZELDA FITZGERALDThere’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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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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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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Death is the only real elegance.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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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.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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