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• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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  Quiet, Language

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• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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  Business, Entrepreneur, Lasts

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• I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

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  Humans, Human Beings, Sociability

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.115, New Victoria Publishers

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• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Confused

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers

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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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  Believe, Wish, Enough

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.63, New Victoria Publishers

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• Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

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  Believer

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.111, New Victoria Publishers

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• To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

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  Abuse, Style, Foundation

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.8, New Victoria Publishers

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

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  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

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  Sensuality

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• At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Night

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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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  Wife, Mistress

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.9, New Victoria Publishers

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• Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

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  Shadow

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.101, New Victoria Publishers

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• Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

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  Tea, Drink, Hyphens

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.161, NYU Press

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• albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

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  Eye, Hair, Vices

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• My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

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  Vices, Harm, Deliberate

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• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

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  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "My Country 'tis of Thee". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

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  Ambition, Ifs

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.19, New Victoria Publishers

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• With renunciation life begins.

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  Literature, Renunciation

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• I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

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  Looks, Bibliophiles, Humans

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

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• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

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  Demand, Seduction, Virtue

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• There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

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  Reality, Literature, Intangible

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• ... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

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  Rooftops, Difficult

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.21, NYU Press

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• Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

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  Thinking, People, Literature

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• I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

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  Real, People, Hours

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

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• Lovers should also have their days off.

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  Love, Days Off, Lovers

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