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I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

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
Beings
Human
Humans
Time
Sociability
Fond

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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
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