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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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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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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 have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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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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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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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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