All Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes
- 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… Attributes
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? Divide
- Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. Accepting
- Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. Business
- The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. Advantage
- Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. Intention
- Novels are longer than life. Inspirational
- Lovers should also have their days off. Days
- Eternity - waste of time. Eternity
- We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. All
- 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… Excluded
- It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it. Inspirational
- Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. Demand
- To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. Inspirational
- With renunciation life begins. Begins
- Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.... Heroism
- If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. Fall
- It is time for dead languages to be quiet. Dead
- My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. Deliberate
- At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm… Affair
- Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. All
- Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. Birth
- How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. Fatigue
- Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable. Accepting