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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