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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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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
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Doubting
Around
Alchemy
Look
Spoken
Wells
Precisely
Everything
Misery
Well
Doubt
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Full
Gorge
Done
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Gorges

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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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A man's sorrow runs uphill true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
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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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When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston one goes to the Bowery.
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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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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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