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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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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
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That parasite: the past.
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My only books were women's looks.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
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Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
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