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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 hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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