88 Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity...

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    Paris has always seemed... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

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Paris has always seemed... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

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    A scholar’s heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

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A scholar’s heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

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    All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an ‘impoverishment’ but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

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All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an ‘impoverishment’ but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

-Natalie Clifford Barney

Tea – that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen...

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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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

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