Natalie Clifford Barney

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Might I be the one I am looking for?

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Lovers should also have their days off.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

If only art were as rare as good taste.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

My only books were women's looks.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity - waste of time.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

— Natalie Clifford Barney