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Natalie Clifford Barney
American
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About the author
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Love
#First
#Sight
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Youth
#Old
#Question
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#People
#Thinking
With renunciation life begins.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Life
#Renunciation
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Men
#Possessions
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,
American
Author
#Love
#Light
#Meeting
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Self
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Time
#Tears
#Faces
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,
American
Author
#Words
#Thought
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Mediocrity
#Heroism
Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Life
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Virtue
#Seduction
Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Lovers
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Time
#Quiet
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Open
#Mind
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Life
#Needs
#Leisure
#Fatigue
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Trouble
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney,
American
Author
#Man