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Might I be the one I am looking for?

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
Looking
Might

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Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
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Eternity - waste of time.
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That parasite: the past.
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doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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