Djuna Barnes

“She had the face of all people who love the impossible.”

“I'll never know you. You'll never know me. You can't.”

“There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation–purity's black backside!”

“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.”

“The very condition of sanity is that you have to take a lot on trust.”

“Art is the provocation for talking about enigma.”

“There is not one of us who is not perpetually young. We are the same, you and I, and it is that that is our charm and our terror.”

“An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.”

“We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.”

“I am not a lesbian. I just loved Thelma.”

“Life is a gesture, but you can't save it from its consequences.”

“Some people are born with the whole world in their hands and some are born from the womb in a bag and invoked to get out.”

“We are all born in the same room, but we die in different ones.”

“A man is another person's opportunity.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“To be a legend is to be a lie.”

“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not a word.”

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”