Natalie Clifford Barney Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Natalie Clifford Barney:

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

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.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Natalie Clifford Barney