Djuna Barnes - Sense Quotes

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In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

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He is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.

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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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