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Djuna Barnes Quotes: In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
         

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.


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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.



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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

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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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This page presents the quote "In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.". Author of this quote is Djuna Barnes. This quote is about time, past, depravity, captured, age, acceptance, corruption, endurance,.