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Only the impossible lasts forever.

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
Philosophical
Impossible
Forever
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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A man's sorrow runs uphill true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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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 unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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To think is to be sick.
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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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