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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I 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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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