"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
-Henry James
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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.“
-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."
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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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