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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

“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?”

Men Wells Whole Shadow Accounts Astonishment

Author:Djuna Barnes

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”

Men Whole Shadow Accounts Astonishment

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.”

People Littles Book School Land Dying Arms Shapes Summer Shadow Rounds Patterns Boxes Autumn Squares Fragile Headings Lofty Fading Hurrying

Book:New York

Source: New York

“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.”

Heart Body Love Is Taken Lovers Degrees Findings Shadow Tombs Deposits Indelible Utensils

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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