Natalie Clifford Barney quotes

Natalie Clifford Barney was an American writer, poet, and influential salon hostess in Paris. Her literary salons attracted many prominent artists, writers, and thinkers of the early 20th century. She became a central figure in the LGBTQ+ and avant-garde communities of her time. Here are 40 of her quotes:

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. (Natalie Clifford Barney)
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. View quote
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. View quote
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. View quote
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet. View quote
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To be married is to be neither alone nor together. View quote
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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. View quote
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? View quote
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. (Natalie Clifford Barney)
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. View quote
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. View quote
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Novels are longer than life. View quote
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Lovers should also have their days off. View quote
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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. View quote
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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops. View quote
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I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life. View quote
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Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. View quote
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. View quote
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If we are bothered by possessions we cannot really live either from without or from within; we are the possession of our possessions. (Natalie Clifford Barney)
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men: that you may belong to everything and everything be yours inclusive of yourself. View quote
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. View quote
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. View quote
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Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. View quote
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Natalie Clifford Barney

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Occupation: American Author
Born: October 31, 1876
Died: February 2, 1972
Quotes count: 40
Wikipedia: Natalie Clifford Barney

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