"Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be t… - Djuna Barnes

"Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself."

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

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Pen Names: Lydia Steptoe

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I went into a lather of misery watching them, and thinking of you, and how in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other that they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on, eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.

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.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

"Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself." - Djuna Barnes

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