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• There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

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  Honesty, Liars, Doors

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

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  Breakup, Lying, Love Is

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

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  New York, Cities, Typical

  1916 'Greenwich Village As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

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• Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.

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  Taken, Heart, Love Is

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

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  Necks, Throat

  1916 'Greenwich Village As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

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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.

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  Jealous, Heart, Imperfection

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

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  Grandmother, Love Is, Suffering

  Letter to Emily Holmes Coleman, February 02, 1934.

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• I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

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  Humble, Wind, Cows

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

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  Endurance, Ruins, Depravity

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Heart, Lasts, Muscles

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.38, Faber & Faber

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• Life, the permission to know death.

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  Aging, Permission, Knows

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

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  Men, Needs, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

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  New York, Men, Water

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.100, Courier Dover Publications

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• Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

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  Men, Use

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.101, Courier Dover Publications

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• To think is to be sick.

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  Thinking, Sick

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.168, New Directions Publishing

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• We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

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  Wind, Skins, Mortality

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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• Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

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  Funny, Life Is Short, Bad Day

  Djuna Barnes, Phillip F. Herring, Osias Stutman (2005). “Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs”, p.285, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

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  Narrative

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

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  War, Hands, Mind

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

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  Next, Hazards, Moments

  Djuna Barnes (1928). “Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides, Their Moons and Their Changes, the Seasons as it is with Them, Their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.

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  Boston, Color, Mind

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

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  Law, Produce, Certainty

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

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  Sleep, Demand, Guilty

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

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  Conclusion, Reader, Careful

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

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  Acceptance, Past, Age

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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