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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Wisdom
Lying
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Last
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Love

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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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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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To think is to be sick.
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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.
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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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