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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

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
Mind
Uncertainties
Uncertainty
Image
Stop
Makes

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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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Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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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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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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