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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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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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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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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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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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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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Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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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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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've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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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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