Natalie Clifford Barney
13 quotations
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Eternity -- waste of time.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Novels are longer than life.
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Lovers should also have their days off.
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.