It is time for dead languages to keep quiet. Natalie Clifford Barney More Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney More Quotes From Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. Natalie Clifford Barney slavemastersself 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. Natalie Clifford Barney intangibleliteraturereality ... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops. Natalie Clifford Barney rooftopsdifficult Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. Natalie Clifford Barney literaturepeoplethinking We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics? Natalie Clifford Barney masculine-and-femininequalitymen Lovers should also have their days off. Natalie Clifford Barney days-offloverslove Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. Natalie Clifford Barney parisfitcities It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it. Natalie Clifford Barney usedusesuffering That parasite: the past. Natalie Clifford Barney parasitespast To be married is to be neither alone nor together. Natalie Clifford Barney being-marriedmarriedtogether Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution. Natalie Clifford Barney evolutionbelievepeople One is not oneself every day-fortunately. Natalie Clifford Barney oneselfpersonality To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks. Natalie Clifford Barney boringwarthinking A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. Natalie Clifford Barney learningdarkheart Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. Natalie Clifford Barney prejudicedefensenatural Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said! Natalie Clifford Barney insinceritytrapssaid A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. Natalie Clifford Barney fruittreefall Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. Natalie Clifford Barney heroismmediocrityabstinence If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. Natalie Clifford Barney tolerancefallthinking All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves. Natalie Clifford Barney expressionwayart
