Quotes by Barnes, Djuna

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of i >>

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, giv >>

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. >>

Quotations about Sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep. >>

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no >>

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the uni >>

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.

Barnes, Djuna