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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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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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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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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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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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