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“…and either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.”
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Djuna Barnes
“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”
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Djuna Barnes
“So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight.”
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Djuna Barnes
“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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Djuna Barnes
“Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all...”
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