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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
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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To think is to be sick.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.
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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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