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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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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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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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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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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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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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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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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 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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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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