Djuna Barnes Looks Quotations

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.