Quotes of Natalie Clifford Barney - somelinesforyou

“ The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ 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

“ 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

“ At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a loveaffair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Lovers should also have their days off. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ 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

“ Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ 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. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ 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. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney
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