THE MAN: We will bury her deep beneath our hearts, yours an… - Djuna Barnes

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THE MAN: We will bury her deep beneath our hearts, yours and mine — for her soul is a flower, and that we may not touch; but her spirit is wine, and that we may drink, that she may have her shroud.

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Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Alternative Names: Lydia Steptoe

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To think is to be sick...

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.

How cruel is reason! How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is meditation! How subtle is the lack of reason!

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