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Natalie Clifford Barney

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It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#suffering #inspirational

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


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#delays #first #love #love at first sight #second

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


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#our #shed #tears #time

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#individual #last #making #refuge #trouble

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


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#fatalism #inevitable #lazy #man #way

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


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#how #inner #leisure #life #many

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


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#into #keep #likely #mind #much

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#languages #quiet #time

Lovers should also have their days off.


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#days #lovers #off #should #their

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


— Natalie Clifford Barney


#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions






About Natalie Clifford Barney

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Did you know about Natalie Clifford Barney?

Some critics interpret her as saying that the aggression that leads to war is visible in all male relationships. "My queerness" Natalie Clifford Barney said "is not a vice is not deliberate and harms no one. In her writings Natalie Clifford Barney supported feminism and pacifism.

She opposed monogamy and had many overlapping long and short-term relationships including on-and-off romances with poet Renée Vivien and dancer Armen Ohanian and a 50-year relationship with painter Romaine Brooks. Her life and love affairs served as inspiration for many novels ranging from the salacious French bestseller Sapphic Idyll to The Well of Loneliness arguably the most famous lesbian novel of the 20th century.

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