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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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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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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'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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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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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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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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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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