Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Les générosites en amour se payent cher.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze.

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.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.