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Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Natalie Clifford Barney Biography

Nationality: American
Type: Author

Born: October 31, 1876
Death: February 2, 1972

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #1

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Young, Old, Youth

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #2

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Thinking, Replaced, Ones

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #3

With renunciation life begins.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Life , Begins

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #4

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Self, Master, Slave

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #5

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

Tags: Without, Words, Thought

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #6

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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Tags: Mediocrity, Heroism

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #7

Novels are longer than life.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Life , Longer, Novels

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #8

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

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Tags: Virtue, Greater, Demand

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #9

Lovers should also have their days off.

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Tags: Off, Days, Lovers

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #10

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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Tags: Time , Dead, Quiet

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #11

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Mind, Keep, Fall

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #12

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Life , Without, Needs

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #13

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Lazy, Accepting, Inevitable

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #14

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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Tags: Last, Making, Trouble

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #15

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Tags: Time , Tears, Faces

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #16

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

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Tags: Love , Second, Advantage

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #17

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

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Tags: Men , Wise, Ignore

Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes #18

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

Tags: Love , Light, Her