I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole. - Djuna Barnes
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
- Djuna Barnes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. - Djuna Barnes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. - Djuna Barnes
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. - Djuna Barnes
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
Only the impossible lasts forever. - Djuna Barnes
Only the impossible lasts forever.
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. - Djuna Barnes
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have… - Djuna Barnes
The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have…
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. - Djuna Barnes
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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… - Djuna Barnes
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…
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