“I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Variant: I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

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Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900–1948

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