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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

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
Flesh
Ache
Bones

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My war brought me many things let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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?
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Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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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.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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To think is to be sick.
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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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