88 Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney

I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.