Natalie Barney Quotes
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ...
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Our shadows are taller than ourselves.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Eternity: what a waste of time.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Silence too can be indiscreet.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Might I be the one I am looking for?
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
My only books were women's looks.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Novels are longer than life.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
In love there is no status quo.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
If I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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
One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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
That parasite: the past.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Lovers should also have their days off.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
— Natalie Clifford Barney