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Too great a sense of identity...

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

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There is always more surface ...

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

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Certainty always produces que...

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

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A man is whole only when he t...

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

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Madness to us means reversion...

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

When autumn shadows throw the...

When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

When one wants to become cogn...

When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.

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Una's face was an unbroken bl...

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

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Matthew,' she said, 'have you...

Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held it to the light. 'Robin can go anywhere, do anything,' Nora continued, 'because she forgets, and I nowhere because I remember.' She came toward him. 'Matthew,' she said, 'you think I have always been like this. Once I was remorseless, but this is another love — it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop — it rots me away.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

Destiny and history are untid...

Destiny and history are untidy.

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No man needs curing of his in...

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

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Well, isn't Bohemia a place w...

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

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A strong sense of identity gi...

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

This head has risen above its...

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

Life is painful, nasty and sh...

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

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The night is a skin pulled ov...

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

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What is a ruin but time easin...

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

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New York is the meeting place...

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

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I'm a fart in a gale of wind,...

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

The heart of the jealous know...

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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