None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last. Djuna Barnes More Quotes by Djuna Barnes More Quotes From Djuna Barnes The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. Djuna Barnes misinformation priceless mind 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. Djuna Barnes jealous imperfection heart In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. Djuna Barnes acceptance age past 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 inward wish looks I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat. Djuna Barnes cows humble wind Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy Djuna Barnes doubting-everything gorges looks The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all. Djuna Barnes shocking truth-is self Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature. Djuna Barnes produce certainty law The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. Djuna Barnes skins may night Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss. Djuna Barnes use men 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 peppermint paper class After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. Djuna Barnes necks throat We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. Djuna Barnes salad girl doors 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 bohemian wells littles 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 gnarly hair men What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Djuna Barnes ruins endurance depravity An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. Djuna Barnes uncertainty mind I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. Djuna Barnes eye criticism giving I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me. Djuna Barnes draws foolish writing To think is to be sick. Djuna Barnes sick thinking
