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Djuna Barnes quotes about manly

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
Djuna Barnes quote: "A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to..."
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes quote: "A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no..."
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes quote: "No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal..."
No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to. Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes quote: "You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pt; you pound the..."
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pt; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher. Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes quote: "A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow."
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. Djuna Barnes

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