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Djuna Barnes, an American writer, was born on June 12, 1892, and died on June 18, 1982. She is known for her unique literary style and profound modernist thoughts.

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Famous Djuna Barnes Quotes

“Since her emotional reactions were without distinction, she had to fall back on the emotions of the past, great loves already lived and related, and over those she seemed to suffer and grow glad.”

Love Past Emotions

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?”

Thinking Past Remember Courses Paris

Author:Djuna Barnes

“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.”

Age Past Acceptance Corruption Ruins Endurance Captured Depravity

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.”

Ends Past Youth Legs Planning Conferences

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

About the Author

Born: June 12, 1892
Died: June 18, 1982
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 107

Books & Sources

NightwoodRelated source material

Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna BarnesRelated source material

Nightwood: The Original Version and Related DraftsRelated source material

Collected StoriesRelated source material

New YorkRelated source material

Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the MemoirsRelated source material

Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides, Their Moons and Their Changes, the Seasons as it is with Them, Their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal DistempersRelated source material

The Book of Repulsive Women and Other PoemsRelated source material

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