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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

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Natalie Clifford Barney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1876
Born: October 31
Died: 1972
Died: February 2
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Dayton
Ohio
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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That parasite: the past.
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Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
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Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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