Nightwood

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
― Djuna Barnes

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

Her heavy peasant face was fringed by a bang of red hair like a woolen table-spread, a color at once strange and attractive, an obstinate color, a color that seemed to make Lena feel something alien and bad-tempered had settled over her forehead...
― Djuna Barnes