Djuna Barnes - Man Quotes

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New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

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You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

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One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

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A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

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No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

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A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

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A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself — and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

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But the great doctor, he's a divine idiot and a wise man. He closes one eye, the eye that he studied with, and putting his finger on the arteries of the body says: "God whose roadway this is, has given me permission to travel on it also," which, Heaven help the patient, is true...

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