Quote by Djuna Barnes
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasnt the best o

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasnt the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how lifes lived before it gets to the parlor door. – Djuna Barnes

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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the others bed, where the rival perfects the lovers imperfections. – Djuna Barnes

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You can not do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do. – Anon.

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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete. – Dr. Robert Anthony

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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I dont know. – W. H. Auden

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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake. – Marie Antoinette

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