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It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

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

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one y...

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Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a deli...

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Natalie Clifford Barney

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Born: 1876-10-31

Died: 1972-02-02

Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American poet, memoirist, and epigrammatist, most of whose life was spent in France. Almost all of her books were written in the language of her adopted country.More