1876-1972, American-born French Author
Eternity — waste of time.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Eternity]
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Resignation]
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Leisure]
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Impartiality]
Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Lovers]
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Virtue]
Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Fiction]
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Abstinence]
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Love At First Sight]
There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Reality]
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Faces]
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Autonomy]
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.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [God]
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Possessions]
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Intentions]
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney – [Youth]