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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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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.
Djuna Barnes
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 truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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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
Djuna Barnes
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes
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.
Djuna Barnes
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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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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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 but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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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.
Djuna Barnes
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
Djuna Barnes
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.
Djuna Barnes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
Djuna Barnes
