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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Natalie Clifford Barney
playwright, poet, writer, salonnière, novelist
1876 – 1972
Natalie Clifford Barney was an American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris that brought together French and international writers. She influenced other authors through her salon and also with her poetry, plays, and epigrams, often thematically tied to her lesbianism and feminism.
All Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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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