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 BarnesTag: 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 BarnesTag: 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 BarnesTag: 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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