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Djuna Barnes quotes about love

American Novelist June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982

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God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you prepare for that? Everything we can't bear in the world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.... There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purty's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I... Djuna Barnes
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. Djuna Barnes
Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held it to the light. 'Robin can go anywhere, do anything,' Nora continued, 'because she forgets, and I nowhere because I remember.' She came toward him. 'Matthew,' she said, 'you think I have always been like this. Once I was remorseless, but this is another love — it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop — it rots me away. Djuna Barnes
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? Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes quote: "To love without criticism is to be betrayed."
To love without criticism is to be betrayed. Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes quote: "I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate,..."
I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say “Love” and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog. Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes quote: "I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it..."
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me. Djuna Barnes

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