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zest
noun
great enthusiasm and energy.
‘she had a great zest for life’.
1 a quality of excitement and piquancy.
the outer coloured part of the peel of citrus fruit, used to give flavour in cooking.
synonyms:
enthusiasm, gusto, fizz, relish, zeal, fervour, brio, sparkle, pep, vigour, effervescence, buoyancy, exuberance, pizzazz.
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...” — Joan Didion, The White Album, 1979.
“I began to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. […] if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be” — Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald, 1979.
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic” — Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 1929.
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time” — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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