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Best Quotes by Djuna Barnes (Top 10)
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished
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She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time —because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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More Djuna Barnes Quotes
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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.
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In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
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A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
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A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.
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Destiny and history are untidy.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
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