"Every hour is my last, and," she said desperately,"one can… - Djuna Barnes

"Every hour is my last, and," she said desperately,"one can't live one's last hour all one's life!"

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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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She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.

No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he has come-some country that he has devoured rather than resided in, some secret land that he has been nourished on but cannot inherit, for the Jew seems to be everythere from nowhere.

…everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget — the design of life; and good when we are forgotten — the design of death.

"Every hour is my last, and," she said desperately,"one can't live one's last hour all one's life!" - Djuna Barnes

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