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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
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Salonnière
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Dayton
Ohio
Renunciation
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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My only books were women's looks.
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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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Novels are longer than life.
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I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
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