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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Prejudice, Defense, Natural

Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, 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.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eye, Hair, Vices

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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.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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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Eternity - waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Time, Waste, Wasting Time

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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Self, Slave, Masters

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With renunciation life begins.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Literature, Renunciation

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Demand, Seduction, Virtue

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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Inspirational, Time, Broken Hearted

"The Amazon of Letters". Book by George Wickes, 1976.

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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Heroism, Mediocrity, Abstinence

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Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Cities, Paris, Fit

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.91, New Victoria Publishers

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To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Book, Asks, Ifs

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.122, New Victoria Publishers

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A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Book, Exhausted, Good Book

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.119, New Victoria Publishers

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

Thinking, People, Literature

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One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Personality, Oneself

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If only art were as rare as good taste.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Art, Taste, Good Taste

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.126, New Victoria Publishers

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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.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Reality, Literature, Intangible

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It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Suffering, Use, Used

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We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

Natalie Clifford Barney

Men, Masculine And Feminine, Quality

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.87, New Victoria Publishers

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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Learning, Heart, Dark

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Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Privilege, Tact

Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.19, NYU Press

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Fall, Thinking, Tolerance

"Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Hero, Today, Bows

Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.126, NYU Press

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My only books were women's looks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Book, Looks

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.93, New Victoria Publishers

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In love there is no status quo.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Status Quo

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.112, New Victoria Publishers

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To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Together, Married, Being Married

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.97, New Victoria Publishers

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Born: October 31, 1876
Died: February 2, 1972
Occupation: Playwright
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