25 ordspråk av Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
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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 her, or from the meeting of your spar
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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 her, or from the meeting of your spar
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
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With renunciation life begins.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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