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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
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Something
Men
Amiss

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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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To think is to be sick.
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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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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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