Zelda Fitzgerald on the Human Spirit

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

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May 13, 2014

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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

– Zelda Fitzgerald

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