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Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes: Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
         

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.


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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.



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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.



Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?



Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.



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

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



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

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



I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.



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

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



My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.



Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.





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