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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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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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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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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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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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To think is to be sick.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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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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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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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 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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A man's sorrow runs uphill true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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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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Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.
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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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