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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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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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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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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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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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