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 JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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