Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes & Sayings

“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 sparks.”

“Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”

“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.”

“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”

“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”

“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”

“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”

“Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.”

“To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.”

“How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.”