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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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