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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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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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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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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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 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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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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