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“She speaks of people taking away her ‘faith’ in them, as if faith were a transportable object—all her life she has been subject to the feeling of ‘removal.”

Love Faith Trust Despair Betrayal Nightwood Djuna Barnes

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.”

Men Love Women Beauty Garden Seasons Independence Weather Imagery Woman S Strength Djuna Barnes

Author:Djuna Barnes

“His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.”

Nightwood Djuna Barnes

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.”

Nightwood Djuna Barnes

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;”

Nightwood Djuna Barnes

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood