We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna BarnesA man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
Djuna BarnesMots clés shadow-self personhood jungism
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.
Djuna BarnesMots clés silence
Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.
Djuna BarnesThe unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
Djuna BarnesMots clés pain
And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough -- you've got to know how.' So I got to thinking and I said to myself, 'This is a terrible thing that Father Lucas has put on me -- be simple like the beasts and yet think and harm nobody.
Djuna BarnesOur bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
Djuna BarnesA man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Djuna BarnesOh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart!
Djuna BarnesEven the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.
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