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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…
- We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
- We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
- The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and…
- I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
- 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…
- I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
- The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its…
- Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.
- My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t…
- I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only…
- 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…
- ...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…
- True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay…
- To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.…
- To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo…
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