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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.Natalie Clifford Barney
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At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.Natalie Clifford Barney
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It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.Natalie Clifford Barney
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Natalie Clifford Barney
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Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.Natalie Clifford Barney
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.Natalie Clifford Barney
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Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.Natalie Clifford Barney