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Djuna Barnes has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the…
• Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
• We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
• When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms…
• Life, the permission to know death.
• Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.
• Only the impossible lasts forever.
• To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
• Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
• A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
• We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
• Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

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