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• Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Traps, Said, Insincerity

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

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• Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Years, Age, Youth

  "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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• 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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• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  First Love, Sight, Cynical

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

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• We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  God, Names, Sin

  "Gods". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• Novels are longer than life.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Life, Literature, Novel

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.118, New Victoria Publishers

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• A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Tree, Fruit

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

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• Lovers should also have their days off.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Love, Days Off, Lovers

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• Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fashion, Absurdity

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.100, New Victoria Publishers

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• To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  War, Thinking, Boring

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• That parasite: the past.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Past, Parasites

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.129, New Victoria Publishers

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• Eternity: what a waste of time.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Waste, Wasting Time, Eternity

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

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• Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Men, Lazy Man, Literature

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• What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Annoying, Passages

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.120, New Victoria Publishers

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