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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
Lasts
Philosophical
Impossible
Forever

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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.
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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor 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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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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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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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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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston one goes to the Bowery.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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