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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
Women
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More quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney
Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
Natalie Clifford Barney
Eternity - waste of time.
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That parasite: the past.
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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?
Natalie Clifford Barney
Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
Natalie Clifford Barney
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
Natalie Clifford Barney
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
Natalie Clifford Barney
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
Natalie Clifford Barney
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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.
Natalie Clifford Barney
The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.
Natalie Clifford Barney
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Might I be the one I am looking for?
Natalie Clifford Barney
Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
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