Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes - Page 3

• La ventaja del amor a primera vista es que retrasa una segunda vista.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  First Love, Sight, Cynical

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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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

  Art, Expression, Way

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

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• Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Traps, Said, Insincerity

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

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

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Doubt, Purity, Deny

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

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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.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  God, Names, Sin

  "Gods". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Otoño, Árbol, Fruta

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.119, New Victoria Publishers

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• Novels are longer than life.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Life, Literature, Novel

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.118, New Victoria Publishers

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• La juventud no es una cuestión de años: se es joven o viejo desde el nacimiento.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Years, Age, Youth

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fashion, Absurdity

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.100, New Victoria Publishers

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

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  People, Judging, Ease

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

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• To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  War, Thinking, Boring

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• That parasite: the past.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Past, Parasites

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.129, New Victoria Publishers

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• Lovers should also have their days off.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Love, Days Off, Lovers

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• Eternity: what a waste of time.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Waste, Wasting Time, Eternity

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

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

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Men, Lazy Man, Literature

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• What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Annoying, Passages

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.120, New Victoria Publishers

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