Djuna Barnes quotes - page 2

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. (Djuna Barnes)
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. View quote
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I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished. View quote
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me. View quote
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed. View quote
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You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher. View quote
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Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty. View quote
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. View quote
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What turn of card, what trick of game Undiced? And you we valued still a little More than Christ. View quote
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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? View quote
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To think is to be sick... (Djuna Barnes)
Ah God! she settles down we say; It means her powers slip away It means she draws back day by day From good or bad. View quote
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. View quote
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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. View quote
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In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. View quote
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This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. View quote
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I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes. View quote
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And friends and relatives disperse, And are not stirred. View quote
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This life I write and draw and portray is life as it is, and therefore you call it morbid. View quote
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It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored. View quote
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The jests that lit our hours by night And made them gay, Soiled a sweet and ignorant soul And fouled its play. (Djuna Barnes)
If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored. View quote
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