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 JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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