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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/469/">Quotes by <em>Barnes, Djuna</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982) played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing by women and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after holding a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact."

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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."

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"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."

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"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."

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"Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations."

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"Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else -- and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?"

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