We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night.
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Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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