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Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

«Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?»
«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.»
«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 spar»
«Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.»
«Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction»
«Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.»
«How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue»
«The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.»
«To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.»
«Lovers should also have their days off.»