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Djuna Barnes Quotes about Heart

All Djuna Barnes Quotes Heart quotes Lying Past Skins

Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart

Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.

Taken, Heart, Love Is

Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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.

Jealous, Heart, Imperfection

Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Heart, Lasts, Muscles

Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.38, Faber & Faber

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