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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Natalie Clifford Barney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1876
Born: October 31
Died: 1972
Died: February 2
Novelist
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Dayton
Ohio
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
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doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
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I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
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Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
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Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
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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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One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
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With renunciation life begins.
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If only art were as rare as good taste.
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