This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only t…

Djuna Barnes
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This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. ✨ Djuna Barnes (1996). Collected Stories, Sun and Moon Press
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. ✨ Djuna Barnes (2014). Nightwood, p.70, Faber & Faber
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me. ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). Nightwood, p.165, New Directions Publishing
“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was … ▶
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). Nightwood, p.25, New Directions Publishing
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ✨ 1916 'Greenwich Village As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. ✨ Djuna Barnes (1996). Collected Stories, Sun and Moon Press

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