Natalie Clifford Barney – Quotes Lover

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

With renunciation life begins.

#Natalie Clifford Barney

With renunciation life begins.

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

#Natalie Clifford Barney

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

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

#Natalie Clifford Barney

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Lovers should also have their days off.

#Natalie Clifford Barney

Lovers should also have their days off.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

#Natalie Clifford Barney

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Novels are longer than life.

#Natalie Clifford Barney

Novels are longer than life.