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There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Door
Horrid
Doors
Degradation
Gone
Liar
Evil
Liars
Black
Purity
Something
Honesty
Always
Seeking
Backside
Love
Loves
Backsides

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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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.
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