Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
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I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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| Birth: | 12th June, 1892 |
| Death: | 18th June, 1982 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Djuna Barnes was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens.
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