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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
Without
Love
Betrayed
Criticism
Judgment

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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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