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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
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Death
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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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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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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.
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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.
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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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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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