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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Men
Amiss
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Use
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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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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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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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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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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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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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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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