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A man's sorrow runs uphill true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
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Cornwall on Hudson
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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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Madness to us means reversion to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.
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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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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
Djuna Barnes
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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