Lovers should also have their days off.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Lovers, Love
Eternity—waste of time.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Time, Eternity
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Heroism
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Leisure, Rest
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Face, Crying, Faces
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Property, Possessions, Riches
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
Topics: God
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Youth
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Impartiality
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
Topics: Love
Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the inevitable.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Despair
To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Independence
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
Topics: Reality
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Virtue
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Business
Novels are longer than life.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Fiction, Authors & Writing
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Purpose, Intentions
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
—Natalie Clifford Barney
Topics: Love
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Edna St. Vincent Millay American Poet
- Gertrude Stein American Writer
- William Congreve English Dramatist
- Colley Cibber English Playwright
- Lope de Vega Spanish Playwright
- Henrik Ibsen Norwegian Playwright
- Christopher Marlowe English Playwright
- William Motter Inge American Playwright
- Thornton Wilder American Novelist, Dramatist
- Langston Hughes American Poet, Writer
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