I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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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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