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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Language is wine upon the lips.
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
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