Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
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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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“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.”
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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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“At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.”
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“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
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“My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.”
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“Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.”
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“Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!”
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“A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.”
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“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?”
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“albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.”
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“Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.”
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“I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.”
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“I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.”
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“Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.”
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“The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.”
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“Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?”
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“In love there is no status quo.”
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“Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.”
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“My only books were women's looks.”
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“To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.”
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“Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.”
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“... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.”
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“Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.”
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“What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.”
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“To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.”
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“Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.”
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“Eternity: what a waste of time.”
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