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With renunciation life begins.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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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
Begins
Literature
Life
Renunciation

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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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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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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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Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
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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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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
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Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
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Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
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Novels are longer than life.
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That parasite: the past.
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A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
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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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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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