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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
Renunciation
Begins
Literature
Life

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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
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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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A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
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Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
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One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
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To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
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I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
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I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
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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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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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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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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