Natalie Clifford Barney

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes fr…"

"The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight."

"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

"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."

"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."

"The Temple of Friendship at ruevisconti.com"