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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Amiss
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Use
Thing
Something
Men

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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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
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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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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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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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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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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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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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