And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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