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She introduced me to pleasure—and I have never forgiven her.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

Natalie Clifford Barney

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Natalie Clifford Barney

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

Natalie Clifford Barney

If I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney

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Born: October 31, 1876

Died: February 2, 1972 (aged 95)

Bio: Natalie Clifford Barney was an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris.

Known for:

Women Lovers, Or The Third Woman
The One who is Legion (1930)
Adventures of the mind
Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (1900)

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