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Inspirational Quotes by Djuna Barnes
- We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
- Life, the permission to know death.
- To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
- Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
- Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?
- And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
- I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.
- The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
- What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
- After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
- An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
- I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
- For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
- A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
- The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
- Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
- I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
- To think is to be sick...
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