Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESI 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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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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