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Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future. The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ... Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ...
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either. Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Our shadows are taller than ourselves. Our shadows are taller than ourselves.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Eternity: what a waste of time. Eternity: what a waste of time.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating. The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Silence too can be indiscreet. Silence too can be indiscreet.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: It is time for dead languages to be quiet. It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Might I be the one I am looking for? Might I be the one I am looking for?
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: My only books were women's looks. My only books were women's looks.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer. To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Novels are longer than life. Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight. Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: In love there is no status quo. In love there is no status quo.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please. Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: To be married is to be neither alone nor together. To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: If I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. If I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time. I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution. Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze. When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks. To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it. I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact. Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it. It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Being other than normal is a perilous advantage. Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. Doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages. What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops. Anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: One is not oneself every day-fortunately. One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life. I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: That parasite: the past. That parasite: the past.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Lovers should also have their days off. Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings. I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said! Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes: Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

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