Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Lovers should also have their days off.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

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

Eternity -- waste of time.

Novels are longer than life.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.