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Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Natalie Clifford Barney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1876
Born: October 31
Died: 1972
Died: February 2
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Salonnière
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Dayton
Ohio
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That parasite: the past.
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My only books were women's looks.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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