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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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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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My war brought me many things let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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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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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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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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Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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