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Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Natalie Clifford Barney quotes

American Author October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972

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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
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a..."
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. Natalie Clifford Barney
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affai? which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of..."
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "With renunciation life begins."
With renunciation life begins. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "Novels are longer than life."
Novels are longer than life. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "To be one's own master is to be the slave of self."
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "It is time for dead languages to be quiet."
It is time for dead languages to be quiet. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like..."
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking..."
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. Natalie Clifford Barney
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
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney quote: "Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. Natalie Clifford Barney

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