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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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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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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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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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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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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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