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To think is to be sick.

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
Sick
Think
Thinking

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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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