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Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

1876–1972 United States

Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American poet, memoirist, and epigrammatist, most of whose life was spent in France. Almost all of her books were written in the language of her adopted country.

United States
20th-century poets
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Novelists

Also known as: Natalie Barney

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

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

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

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

If we are bothered by possessions we cannot really live either from without or from within; we are the possession of our possessions.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men: that you may belong to everything and everything be yours inclusive of yourself.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Natalie Clifford Barney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.