It 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.
HENRY JAMESCriticism 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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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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