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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
Love
Betrayed
Criticism
Judgment
Without

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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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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 man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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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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The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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