True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
From Edith Wharton
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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