Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.