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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Djuna Barnes

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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
Misinformation
Priceless
Galaxy
Called
Mind

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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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To think is to be sick.
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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.
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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 have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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 heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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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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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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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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