Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Love, Light, Her

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney

Men, Wise, Ignore

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Love, Second, Advantage

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Last, Making, Trouble

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Time, Tears, Faces

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Young, Old, Youth

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Lazy, Accepting, Inevitable

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Life, Needs, Inner

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Mind, Keep, Fall

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Time, Dead, Quiet

Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Off, Days, Lovers

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Virtue, Greater, Demand

Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Life, Longer, Novels

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Mediocrity, Heroism

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

Words, Thought, Lack

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Self, Master, Slave

With renunciation life begins.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Thinking, Replaced

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 31, 1876

Died: February 2, 1972

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