We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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