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She was nervous about the fut...

She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

I like my human experience se...

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

If Helen of Troy could have b...

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

I like my human experience ser...

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

The unendurable is the beginni...

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

One must not look inward too m...

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

Our bones ache only while the ...

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

What is a ruin but time easing...

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

Even the contemplative life is...

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

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 Ђ' it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop Ђ' it rots me away.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

I have been loved,' she said, ...

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

To think is to be sick......

To think is to be sick...

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I have a narrative, but you wi...

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

The priceless galaxy of misinf...

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

A man is whole only when he ta...

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

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

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?

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

An image is a stop the mind ma...

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

After all, it is not where one...

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

Our bones ache only while the ...

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

Love becomes the deposit of th...

Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.

Djuna Barnes 83 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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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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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....