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“I want to die as I lived, between your thighs.”
Source: Women Lovers, or The Third Woman
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“If only art were as rare as good taste.”
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“A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.”
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“I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.”
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“The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.”
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“doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Eternity: what a waste of time.”
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“Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.”
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“Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
“I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.”
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“I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.”
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“Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.”
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“A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.”
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“Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.”
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“if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.”
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“To be married is to be neither alone nor together.”
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“Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.”
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“Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.”
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“Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Our shadows are taller than ourselves.”
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“Silence too can be indiscreet.”
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“Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
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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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“What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.”
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“Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
“... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.”
Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney
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“My only books were women's looks.”
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“Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.”
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“In love there is no status quo.”
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“Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.”
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“I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.”
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“To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.”
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“Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.”
“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.”
“My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.”