All Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes
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.
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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.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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