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Novels are longer than life.

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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
Life
Novels
Novel
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Literature

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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
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In love there is no status quo.
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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
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I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
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My only books were women's looks.
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