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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: Galaxy Mind Misinformation Priceless

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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: Endurance Itself Ruin Time

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Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: Bohemia Bohemian Else Everyone Everyone Else Good Less Little Must Place Than Waiter Well Where

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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

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Topics: Dreams Fact Only

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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: Bed Best Heart Imperfections Jealous Knows Love Lover Most Other Rival Satisfying Where

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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: After Before Beginning Best Door Dressing Gets Girl How Knows Life Lived Parlor Salad Servant She Tastes Whether Without Wonder

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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

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Topics: Heart Last Life Muscle Now Our

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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

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Topics: Day Head May Night Over Pulled Skin Torment

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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: Betrayed Criticism Love To Love Without

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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: Between Image Makes Mind Stop Uncertainties

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 12th, 1892

Died: June 18th, 1982

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