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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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Explore more quotes by Djuna Barnes

"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."
Man

"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."
Life

"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same."
Creativity

"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."
Time

"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties."
Mind

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

"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."
Society

"The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind."
Mind

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed."
Love

"Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty."
Life
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