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 JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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