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> [One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/one-must-not-look-inward-too-much-while-the-inside-is-yet-tender-i-do/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

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## More by Djuna Barnes

> [“There goes the dismantled—Love has fallen off her wall. A religious woman,” he thought to himself, “without the joy and safety of the Catholic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/there-goes-the-dismantled-love-has-fallen-off-her-wall-a-religious/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/of-course-i-think-of-the-past-and-of-paris-what-else-is-there-to/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/a-strong-sense-of-identity-gives-man-an-idea-he-can-do-no-wrong-too/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/my-war-brought-me-many-things-let-yours-bring-you-as-much-life-is-not/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/when-one-wants-to-become-cognizant-of-the-color-and-the-texture-of/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/i-can-draw-and-write-and-you-d-be-foolish-not-to-hire-me/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [“The perfume that her body exhaled was of the quality of that earth-flesh, fungi, which smells of captured dampness and yet is so dry,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/the-perfume-that-her-body-exhaled-was-of-the-quality-of-that-earth/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/god-she-cried-what-is-love-man-seeking-his-own-head-the-human-head-so/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/suffering-for-love-is-how-i-have-learned-practically-everything-i/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/no-man-need-curing-of-his-individual-sickness-his-universal-malady-is/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/when-autumn-shadows-throw-their-patterns-across-the-land-they-are-not/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/our-bones-ache-only-while-the-flesh-is-on-them-stretch-it-as-thin-as/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [“I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say “Love” and twitch like the lopped leg…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/i-tell-you-madame-if-one-gave-birth-to-a-heart-on-a-plate-it-would/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

> [“Those who turn the day into night, the young, the drug addict, the profligate, the drunken and that most miserable, the lover who watches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/those-who-turn-the-day-into-night-the-young-the-drug-addict-the/)

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> [I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/i-couldn-t-ever-boil-potatoes-over-the-heat-of-your-affection-your/)

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