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Джуна Барнс — американская писательница-модернистка, художница, одна из ключевых фигур космополитического Парижа 1920—1930-х годов. Wikipedia

✵ 12. Июнь 1892 – 18. Июнь 1982

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“After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.”

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Greenwich Village as It Is, in Pearson’s Magazine (October 1916)

“A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.”

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Djuna Barnes книга Nightwood

Источник: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 7 : Go Down, Matthew

“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”

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Djuna Barnes книга Nightwood

Источник: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 7 : Go Down, Matthew

“Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.”

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Djuna Barnes книга Nightwood

Источник: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?

“The Seal, she lounges like a bride,
Much too docile, there's no doubt;
Madame Récamier, on side,
(if such she has), and bottom out.”

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Creatures in an Alphabet (1982)

“Ah God! she settles down we say;
It means her powers slip away
It means she draws back day by day
From good or bad.”

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From Third Avenue On
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)

“I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.”

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"The Songs of Synge: The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays", in New York Morning Telegraph (18 February 1917)

“One sees you sitting in the sun
Asleep;
With the sweeter gifts you had
And didn't keep,
One grieves that the altars of
Your vice lie deep.”

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Twilight of the Illicit
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)

“The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.”

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Djuna Barnes книга Nightwood

Источник: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?