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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
Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;
— Djuna Barnes
No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possibleit is a form of immortality — 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
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
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
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
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 toeSpins 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
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
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
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
— 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
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
— 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
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
Those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten.
— Djuna Barnes
To think is to be sick...
— Djuna Barnes
