Barney, Natalie Clifford
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Barney, Natalie Clifford
1876-1972 American-born French Author
Eternity -- waste of time.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Eternity
Novels are longer than life.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Fiction
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.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
God
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Faces
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Impartiality
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Leisure
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Intentions
Lovers should also have their days off.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Lovers
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Love At First Sight
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Possessions
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.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Reality
Fatalism is the lazy man s way of accepting the inevitable.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Resignation
To be one s own master is to be the slave of self.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Autonomy
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Abstinence
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Youth
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Virtue

