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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
Djuna Barnes
Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
Djuna Barnes
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
Djuna Barnes
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna Barnes
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
Djuna Barnes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Djuna Barnes
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Djuna Barnes
The Seal, she lounges like a bride,Much too docile, there's no doubt;Madame RĂ©camier, on side,(if such she has), and bottom out.
Djuna Barnes
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
Djuna Barnes
Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
Djuna Barnes
Destiny and history are untidy.
Djuna Barnes
I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
Djuna Barnes
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
Djuna Barnes
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
Djuna Barnes
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
Djuna Barnes
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
Djuna Barnes
What turn of body, what of lust Undiced? So we've worshipped you a little More than Christ.
Djuna Barnes
One sees you sitting in the sun Asleep; With the sweeter gifts you had And didn't keep, One grieves that the altars of Your vice lie deep.
Djuna Barnes
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
Djuna Barnes
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
Djuna Barnes
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