Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barneywas an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth31 October 1876
CountryUnited States of America
looks bibliophiles humans
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
normal advantage
Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
book exhausted good-book
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.
art taste ifs
If only art were as rare as good taste ...
time tears faces
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
years age-and-youth birth
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
life novel
Novels are longer than life.
time waste wasting-time
Eternity - waste of time.
god names sin
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.
reality intangible interpreter
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.
first-love sight delay
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
self slave masters
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
heroism mediocrity
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....
fall thinking tolerance
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.