Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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• When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

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• Lovers should also have their days off.

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• To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.

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• Novels are longer than life.

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• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

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• Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

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• Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

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• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

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• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

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• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

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  Tags in Delays, Advantage

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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• Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the inevitable.

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• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

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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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• With renunciation life begins.

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Natalie Clifford Barney (18)

Birth:	31st October, 1876
Death:	2nd February, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Playwriter

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