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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

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
Betrayed
Criticism
Judgment
Without
Love

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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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