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Love Quotes by Djuna Barnes
- The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
- 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?
- Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
- The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
- Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken…
- 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.
- God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't…
- There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone…
- Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held…
- To think is to be sick...
- None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
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- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide