Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Virtue]

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Possessions]

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Reality]

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Resignation]

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Intentions]

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Leisure]

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Love At First Sight]

Lovers should also have their days off.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Lovers]

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

Novels are longer than life.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Fiction]

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.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [God]

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Impartiality]

Eternity -- waste of time.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Eternity]

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Abstinence]

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Autonomy]

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney - [Youth]