"Too great a sense of identity makes a……" — Djuna Barnes
"Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same."
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51 Quotes by Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes has 51 quotes on this site.
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the…
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Life, the permission to know death.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
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A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him…
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?
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My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it…
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