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…

Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney

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There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no...

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

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

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

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

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

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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

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

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

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

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

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

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Novels are longer than life.

Novels are longer than life.

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

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

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in...

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in...

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of...

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of...

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in...

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in...