"A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow."

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Source : "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, (Ch. 6), 1936.

Djuna Barnes

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“Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.”
“I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.”
“In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.”
“I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying them. Then just over a month ago she asked me if I would like to be the third author to join the library.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.”
“When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.”
“I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.”

Source : "COVER STORY: Rachael Ray's Recipe for Marriage". Interview with Liza Hamm and Michelle Tauber, people.com. May 2, 2007.
“We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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