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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A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. ✨ Djuna Barnes (1995). Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of … ▶
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next. ✨ Djuna Barnes (1928). Ladies Almanack: Showing T … ▶
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher. ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). Nightwood, p.94, New Directions Publishing
Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty. ✨ Djuna Barnes, Phillip F. Herring, Osias Stutman (2005). Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs, p.285, Univ … ▶

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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