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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Flesh
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Bones

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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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Madness to us means reversion to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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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.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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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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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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 talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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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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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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