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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

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out. — Djuna Barnes

So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight. — Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short ... in my case it has only been painful and nasty. — Djuna Barnes

Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness; — Djuna Barnes

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible
it is a form of immortality — Djuna Barnes

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data. — Djuna Barnes

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me. — Djuna Barnes

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? — Djuna Barnes

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me. — Djuna Barnes

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

Destiny and history are untidy. — Djuna Barnes

Looking down the barrel of your eye, I see the body of a Bloody Cinderella looking back. — Djuna Barnes

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride? — Djuna Barnes

The doctor lifted the bottle. "Thank you," said Felix. "I never drink spirits."
"You will," said the doctor. — Djuna Barnes

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. — Djuna Barnes

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. — Djuna Barnes

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat. — Djuna Barnes

His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown. — Djuna Barnes

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. — Djuna Barnes

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into ... — Djuna Barnes

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes. — Djuna Barnes

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. — Djuna Barnes

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. — Djuna Barnes

I've seen death and I didn't like it. — Djuna Barnes

Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other. — Djuna Barnes

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust — Djuna Barnes

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed! — Djuna Barnes

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

To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end. — Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. — Djuna Barnes

Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself? — Djuna Barnes

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson

Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once. — Djuna Barnes

Man has no foothold that is not also a bargain. So be it! — Djuna Barnes

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. — Djuna Barnes

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

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. — Djuna Barnes

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. — Djuna Barnes

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on. — Djuna Barnes

The ballerina on perfected toe
Spins to the axis of a fortitude
That is the sum of all her yesterdays. — Djuna Barnes

Only the impossible lasts forever. — Djuna Barnes

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same. — Djuna Barnes

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss. — Djuna Barnes

Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep. — Djuna Barnes

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? — Djuna Barnes

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. — Djuna Barnes

Life, the permission to know death. — Djuna Barnes

... 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

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. — Djuna Barnes

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. — Djuna Barnes

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish. — Djuna Barnes

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole. — Djuna Barnes

To love without criticism is to be betrayed. — Djuna Barnes

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

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. — Djuna Barnes

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

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. — Djuna Barnes

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. — Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. — Djuna Barnes

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. — Djuna Barnes

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

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

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart. — Djuna Barnes

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

Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all ... — Djuna Barnes

No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to. — Djuna Barnes

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. — Djuna Barnes

Those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten. — Djuna Barnes

To think is to be sick... — Djuna Barnes

There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent — Djuna Barnes

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember? — Djuna Barnes