The Romantic Egoists

"Do you think the solitude in which I live has a more amusing decor than any other solitude? Do you think it is any nicer for remembering that there were times very late at night when you and I shared our aloneness?"  - Scott to Zelda, 1930


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"I don’t see how you can carry around as much love as I have given you."  - Zelda to Scott, 1919


"I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery, when we can be together all our lives."  - Zelda to Scott, 1919


"There’s nothing in all the world I want but you."  -

Zelda to Scott, 1919


"This has been the longest time in my life. I will never be so foolish as to think I can get on without you again."  - Zelda to Scott, 1931


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"Life is just the essence of zero without you and it somehow seems a very distant affair."  - Zelda to Scott, 1931


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"Our love was one in a century. Life ended for me when Zelda and I crashed. If she would get well, I would be happy again and my soul would be released. Otherwise, never."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald


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"You are all I care about on earth: the past discredited and disowned, the future has doubled up on the present; give me the peace of my one certitude- that I love you."  - Zelda to Scott, 1931


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"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect and it’s these things I’d believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all that she should be. But of course the real reason is that I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. You’re still a Catholic but Zelda’s the only God I have left now."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920


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"I don’t want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally."  - Zelda to Scott, 1919