Argument Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney

“A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.”

Natalie Clifford Barney

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Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

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doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

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Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

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A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

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Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

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Might I be the one I am looking for?

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Lovers should also have their days off.

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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

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To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of…

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Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

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