Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
— Natalie Clifford Barney Adam

virtue

Tea—that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Tea—that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
— Natalie Clifford Barney Adventures of the Mind

tea

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
— Natalie Clifford Barney The Amazon of Letters

face tears

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
— Natalie Clifford Barney Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney

tact

Hero worship has died with horses, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Hero worship has died with horses, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
— Natalie Clifford Barney Adventures of the Mind

heroism hero worship

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
— Natalie Clifford Barney Adam

possessions

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
— Natalie Clifford Barney Adventures of the Mind

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