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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

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I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.

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Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

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The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mo...more

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Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

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I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen ...more

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions th...more

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The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from...more

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This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must ...more

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For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you ...more

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A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

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So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

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We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?