"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
-Henry James
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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.“
-Henry James
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"Deep experience is never peaceful."
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"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"
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"I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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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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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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