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Djuna Barnes Quotes: The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
         

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.


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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 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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