Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. - Natalie Clifford Barney

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. - Natalie Clifford Barney

With renunciation life begins. - Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

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

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. - Natalie Clifford Barney

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