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Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american author Natalie Clifford Barney on topics like life, love, tolerate

  • Lovers should also have their days off.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on love
    26
  • If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on neutrality
    9
  • To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on independence
    7
  • Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on face
    6
  • Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on despair
    5
  • The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on love
    2
  • Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on youth
    2
  • Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on property
    2
  • How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on rest
    2
  • Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on purpose
    2
  • Eternity -- waste of time.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on time
    1
  • Novels are longer than life.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on authors
    1
  • 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
    1
  • 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
    0
  • How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on fatigue
    0
  • 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
    0
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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
    0
  • Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

    — Natalie Clifford Barney on abstinence
    0
  • Related Topics

    • love
    • lovers
    • days
    • neutrality
    • open
    • mind
    • fall
    • independence
    • master
    • slave
    • face
    • faces
    • time
    • engraves
    • tears
    • shed
    • despair
    • fatalism
    • lazy
    • accepting
    • inevitable
    • advantage
    • sight
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    • youth
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    • property
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