Natalie Clifford Barney

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.