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Djuna Barnes quotes: A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out. Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.
Djuna Barnes quotes: So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight. So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Life is painful, nasty and short ... in my case it has only been painful and nasty. Life is painful, nasty and short ... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness; Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;
Djuna Barnes quotes: No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possibleit is a form of immortality No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible
it is a form of immortality
Djuna Barnes quotes: Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data. Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
Djuna Barnes quotes: I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me. I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.
Djuna Barnes quotes: And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
Djuna Barnes quotes: I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me. I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
Djuna Barnes quotes: None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last. None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Destiny and history are untidy. Destiny and history are untidy.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Looking down the barrel of your eye, I see the body of a Bloody Cinderella looking back. Looking down the barrel of your eye, I see the body of a Bloody Cinderella looking back.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride? Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride?
Djuna Barnes quotes: The doctor lifted the bottle. "Thank you," said Felix. "I never drink spirits.""You will," said the doctor. The doctor lifted the bottle. "Thank you," said Felix. "I never drink spirits."
"You will," said the doctor.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
Djuna Barnes quotes: The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
Djuna Barnes quotes: I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat. I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
Djuna Barnes quotes: His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown. His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.
Djuna Barnes quotes: The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
Djuna Barnes quotes: No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into ... No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into ...
Djuna Barnes quotes: I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes. I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.
Djuna Barnes quotes: A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
Djuna Barnes quotes: I've seen death and I didn't like it. I've seen death and I didn't like it.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other. Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.
Djuna Barnes quotes: there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust
Djuna Barnes quotes: God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed! God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
Djuna Barnes quotes: I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say "Love" and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog. I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say "Love" and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog.
Djuna Barnes quotes: To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end. To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end.
Djuna Barnes quotes: I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself? Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?
Djuna Barnes quotes: Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once. Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Man has no foothold that is not also a bargain. So be it! Man has no foothold that is not also a bargain. So be it!
Djuna Barnes quotes: Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna Barnes quotes: I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
Djuna Barnes quotes: A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Djuna Barnes quotes: New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on. Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
Djuna Barnes quotes: The ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays. The ballerina on perfected toe
Spins to the axis of a fortitude
That is the sum of all her yesterdays.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Only the impossible lasts forever. Only the impossible lasts forever.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same. Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss. Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep. Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep.
Djuna Barnes quotes: What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Djuna Barnes quotes: After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
Djuna Barnes quotes: One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes quotes: ... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death. ... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
Djuna Barnes quotes: The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
Djuna Barnes quotes: For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish. For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
Djuna Barnes quotes: There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole. There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
Djuna Barnes quotes: To love without criticism is to be betrayed. To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
Djuna Barnes quotes: The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
Djuna Barnes quotes: One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
Djuna Barnes quotes: An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember? Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
Djuna Barnes quotes: Life, the permission to know death. Life, the permission to know death.
Djuna Barnes quotes: The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next. The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
Djuna Barnes quotes: A Jew's undoing is never his own, it is God's; his rehabilitation is never his own, it is a Christian's. A Jew's undoing is never his own, it is God's; his rehabilitation is never his own, it is a Christian's.
Djuna Barnes quotes: We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart. We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Oh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart! Oh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart!
Djuna Barnes quotes: Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all ... Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all ...
Djuna Barnes quotes: No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to. No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
Djuna Barnes quotes: The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes quotes: Those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten. Those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten.
Djuna Barnes quotes: To think is to be sick... To think is to be sick...
Djuna Barnes quotes: There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent

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