Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

• Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Normal, Advantage

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.92, New Victoria Publishers

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• It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Quiet, Language

  "A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney".

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• ¿Por qué acaparar posesiones como ladrones, o dividirlas como socialistas cuando puedes ignorarlas como sabios?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Inspiración, Sabios, Hombres

  "My Country 'tis of Thee". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• Silence too can be indiscreet.

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  Silencio

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.94, New Victoria Publishers

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• My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

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  Vices, Harm, Deliberate

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

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  Humans, Human Beings, Sociability

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.115, New Victoria Publishers

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• Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Creyente

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.111, New Victoria Publishers

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• The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

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  Creativity, Creating, Life Is

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.130, New Victoria Publishers

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• Might I be the one I am looking for?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Puede

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• El espíritu empresarial es el último refugio del individuo problemático.

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  Business, Entrepreneur, Lasts

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• Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

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  Sombra

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.101, New Victoria Publishers

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• The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

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  Past, Ends, Subtle

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• ... cualquier cosa difícil de decir debe gritarse a los cuatro vientos.

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  Rooftops, Difficult

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.21, NYU Press

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• I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

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  Believe, Wish, Enough

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.63, New Victoria Publishers

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• Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

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  Wife, Mistress

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.9, New Victoria Publishers

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• if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

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  Ambition, Ifs

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.19, New Victoria Publishers

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

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Looks, Bibliophiles, Humans

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

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• Cuando estás enamorado nunca sabes realmente si tu euforia procede de las cualidades de la persona que amas, o si se las atribuye a ella; si la luz que la envuelve como un halo procede de ti, de ella, o del encuentro de vuestras chispas.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Confused

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Sensualidad

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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.

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  Real, People, Hours

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

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• Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

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  Revenge, Foresight, Seeking

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

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• Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

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  Believe, People, Evolution

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, New Victoria Publishers

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• Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Tea, Drink, Hyphens

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.161, NYU Press

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• Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

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  Prejudice, Defense, Natural

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, NYU Press

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