It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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