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
said traps insincerity
Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
wife mistress
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
learning heart dark
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
together married being-married
To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
believer
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
paris cities fit
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
past parasites
That parasite: the past.
believe people evolution
Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
personality oneself
One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
suffering use used
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
demand seduction virtue
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
thinking people intention
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
ambition ifs
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
renunciation
With renunciation life begins.