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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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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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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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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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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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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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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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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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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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