88 Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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.