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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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Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
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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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Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
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Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
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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'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
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What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
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Novels are longer than life.
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Eternity - waste of time.
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All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.
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The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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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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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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