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Novels are longer than life.
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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Salonnière
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Dayton
Ohio
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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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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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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With renunciation life begins.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?
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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
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Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
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