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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Natalie Clifford Barney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1876
Born: October 31
Died: 1972
Died: February 2
Novelist
Playwright
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Salonnière
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Dayton
Ohio
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Life
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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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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Novels are longer than life.
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Eternity - waste of time.
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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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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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