Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

Lovers should also have their days off.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

Novels are longer than life.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

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.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

With renunciation life begins.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
- Natalie Clifford Barney Quote