Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Lovers should also have their days off.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on love
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on neutrality
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on independence
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on face
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on despair
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on love
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on youth
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

— Natalie Clifford Barney on property
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

— Natalie Clifford Barney on rest
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on purpose
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Eternity -- waste of time.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on time
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Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on authors
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About Natalie Clifford Barney

Name	Natalie Clifford Barney
Quotes	18 quotations
Nationality	American
Profession	Author
Birthday	October 16
About	Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote and hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was a noted poet, memoirist and epigrammatist.
Top topics	life, love, tolerate, leisure, ignore

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on virtue
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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.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on reality
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on fatigue
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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.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on god
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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.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on love
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

— Natalie Clifford Barney on abstinence
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