Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESIt led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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