"We are adhering to life now with our……" — Djuna Barnes
"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."
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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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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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Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the…
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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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More Adhering Quotes
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
— Cate Blanchett
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One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has…
— Imagawa Sadayo
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
— William Cobbett
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to
— Camryn Manheim
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I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what…
— Willie Nelson
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I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles…
— Seth Klarman
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Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even…
— Seth Klarman
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A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution…
— Michelangelo Signorile
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We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering…
— Herbert Hoover
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A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
— James Inhofe
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It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless…
— George H. Smith
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It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to…
— Cecil Balmond
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