if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share
