“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.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the inevitable.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“Lovers should also have their days off.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Novels are longer than life.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Eternity — waste of time.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
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“Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Abstinence
