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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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