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Might I be the one I am looking for?

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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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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
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Novels are longer than life.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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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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If only art were as rare as good taste.
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I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
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Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
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With renunciation life begins.
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
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Eternity - waste of time.
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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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In love there is no status quo.
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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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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
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To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
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Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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