Djuna Barnes: Quotes about love

Djuna Barnes was American Modernist writer, poet and artist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for — or ignored.”

Djuna Barnes

What Do You See, Madam? (1932)
Context: If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.
It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for — or ignored.

Love

“There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

Love , Evil

“Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.”

Djuna Barnes

Letter to Emily Holmes Coleman (2 February 1934) http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/library.htm

Love , Suffering , Learning

“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.”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?

Love , Lovers , Heart , Perfection