Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney

American-born French author

Lived from: 1876 - 1972

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 31 october 1876 Died: 2 february 1972

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  • There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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  • Eternity - waste of time.
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  • Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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  • How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
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  • If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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  • Lovers should also have their days off.
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  • Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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  • Novels are longer than life.
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  • Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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  • The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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  • Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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  • To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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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.
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  • Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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  • Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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  • Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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What are the most famous quotes from Natalie Clifford Barney?

The two most famous quotes from Natalie Clifford Barney are:

  • "There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."
  • "Eternity - waste of time."

When did Natalie Clifford Barney live?

Natalie Clifford Barney was born in 1876 and died in the year 1972.