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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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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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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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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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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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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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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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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.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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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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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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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