Natalie Clifford Barney
» Abstinence » “Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.”
» Autonomy » “To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.”
» Eternity » “Eternity — waste of time.”
» Faces » “Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
» Fiction » “Novels are longer than life.”
» God » “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.”
» Impartiality » “If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”
» Intentions » “Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.”
» Leisure » “How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue”
» Love At First Sight » “The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”
» Lovers » “Lovers should also have their days off.”
» Possessions » “Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”
» Reality » “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.”
» Resignation » “Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the inevitable.”
» Virtue » “Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
» Youth » “Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
