Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

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

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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With renunciation life begins... view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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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.. view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self... view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words.. view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity... view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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Novels are longer than life... view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction... view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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Lovers should also have their days off... view

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It is time for dead languages to be quiet... view

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

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

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable... view

By: Natalie Clifford Barney

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