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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
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
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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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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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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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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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