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

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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
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Men
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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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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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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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