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Classic Quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) US writer

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

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Novels are longer than life.

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

 

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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

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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.

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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.


 

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