Djuna Barnes Quotes

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

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  Men, Shadow, Accounts

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

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  Shattered, Surface, Whole

  Djuna Barnes, Rebecca Loncraine (2003). “The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems”, p.11, Psychology Press

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• Only the impossible lasts forever.

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  Philosophical, Forever, Lasts

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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• No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.

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  Mind, Littles, Be Careful

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

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  Mind, Uncertainty

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.85, Faber & Faber

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• The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

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  Mind, Priceless, Misinformation

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

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  Too Much, Miserable, Made

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• Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

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  Flesh, Bones, Ache

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

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  Curves, Joy, Unendurable

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Past, Legs, Planning

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.138, New Directions Publishing

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• I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

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  Giving, Silence, Littles

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• Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

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  Life Is, You Like It, Loud

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

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  Strange, Forgotten, Said

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.165, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

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  Lying, Love Is, Lasts

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

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  Eye, Giving, Criticism

  "The Songs of Synge : The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays". New York Morning Telegraph, February 18, 1917.

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• Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

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  Dream, Facts

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

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  Breakup, Lying, Love Is

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

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  Self, Truth Is, Shocking

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• Destiny and history are untidy.

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  Destiny

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• 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?

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  Men, Shadow, Wells

  "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, (Ch. 6), 1936.

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

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  Past, Thinking, Paris

  In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in "Paris Was a Woman" by Andrea Weiss, (p. 173), 1995.

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• The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

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  Night, Skins, May

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

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  Narrative

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

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  Honesty, Liars, Doors

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

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  Wish, Inward, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.207, Courier Dover Publications

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