Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESIt 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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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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