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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
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Cornwall on Hudson
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Lydia Steptoe
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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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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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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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