I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restrai…

Djuna Barnes
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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
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. ✨ Djuna Barnes (2014). Nightwood, p.68, Faber & Faber
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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

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