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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
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Dayton
Ohio
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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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Might I be the one I am looking for?
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Silence too can be indiscreet.
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Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
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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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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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
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If only art were as rare as good taste.
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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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doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
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With renunciation life begins.
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Novels are longer than life.
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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