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.
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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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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