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Nightwood
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"Nightwood" Quotes

Exploration of love, desire, and unconventional relationships in the bohemian world of early 20th century Paris.

Quotes

The whole book of love is but a single sentence.

Djuna Barnes

There is a land that cannot be visited by memory.

Djuna Barnes

The night is very big, and the city too.

Djuna Barnes

Humanity is just an abyss in a face called love.

Djuna Barnes

Love is not only a catastrophe, it is also a concatenation.

Djuna Barnes

The world is secretly full of people trying to be Beyonce.

Djuna Barnes

The mirror cannot lie, it knows only how to be a mirror.

Djuna Barnes

A heartache that doesn't sleep.

Djuna Barnes

What we love calls for us incessantly.

Djuna Barnes

To live is to be faithless to our childhood.

Djuna Barnes