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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 possible
it is a form of immortality — Djuna Barnes
it 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
"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
Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.
— Susan Stinson
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
— Djuna Barnes
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
— Djuna Barnes
Man has no foothold that is not also a bargain. So be it!
— Djuna Barnes
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
— Djuna Barnes
Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.
— 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
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
— Djuna Barnes
Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?
— Djuna Barnes
The ballerina on perfected toe
Spins to the axis of a fortitude
That is the sum of all her yesterdays. — Djuna Barnes
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
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
... 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
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
— Djuna Barnes
Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.
— Anais Nin
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, the permission to know death.
— 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
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
Those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten.
— Djuna Barnes
To think is to be sick...
— Djuna Barnes