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Deep experience is never peaceful.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
In art economy is always beauty.
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.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid.
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 didn’t embrace.