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My only books were women's looks.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Natalie Clifford Barney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1876
Born: October 31
Died: 1972
Died: February 2
Novelist
Playwright
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Salonnière
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Dayton
Ohio
Looks
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Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
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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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Eternity - waste of time.
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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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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Novels are longer than life.
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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
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Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
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What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
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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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To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
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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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Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Might I be the one I am looking for?
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