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I've seen death and I didn't like it.

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
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Playwright
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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