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Only Quotes by Djuna Barnes
- Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
- Only the impossible lasts forever.
- Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
- New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
- Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it…
- This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots…
- A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
- Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
- Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.
- Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
- Ife is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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