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.
HENRY JAMESWe 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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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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