Natalie Clifford Barney - Adventures of the mind

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Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

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Tea—that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

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

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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

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Anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

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Doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

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