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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
Love
Wisdom
Lying
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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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