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 JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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The 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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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