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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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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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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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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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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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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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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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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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To think is to be sick.
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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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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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