Quotes of Djuna Barnes - somelinesforyou

“ You know what man really desires?" inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. "One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ I went into a lather of misery watching them, and thinking of you, and how in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other that they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, headon, eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ 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

“ Destiny and history are untidy. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ We are adhering to life now with our last muscle the heart. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ 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

“ The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ 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

“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ We are adhering to life now with our last muscle the heart. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ 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

“ We are adhering to life now with our last muscle the heart. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. ”

- Djuna Barnes

“ The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. ”

- Djuna Barnes
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