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What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Natalie Clifford Barney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1876
Born: October 31
Died: 1972
Died: February 2
Novelist
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Salonnière
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Dayton
Ohio
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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
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I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
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In love there is no status quo.
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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
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Novels are longer than life.
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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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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
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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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One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
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Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
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Might I be the one I am looking for?
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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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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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Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
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