Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. - Natalie Clifford Barney

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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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About Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American poet, memoirist, and epigrammatist, most of whose life was spent in France. Almost all of her books were written in the language of her adopted country.

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

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.

Bientôt ou dans un cycle, ce sera de nouveau son tour de me prouver la qualité de son feu. Je ne lui manquerai pas, elle ne me manquera pas — et tout sera consumé.

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