Fear Quote by Djuna Barnes

““So the reason for our cleanliness becomes apparent; cleanliness is a form of apprehension; our faulty racial memory is fathered by fear. Destiny and history are untidy; we fear memory of that disorder.””

Djuna Barnes

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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

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“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”

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