Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Subjects Natalie Clifford Barney spoke about

Abstinence Autonomy Eternity Faces Fiction Impartiality Intentions Leisure Love At First Sight Lovers Resignation Virtue Youth