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We live in the dark, we do what we can, the rest is the madness of art.
Henry James, The Middle Years
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art . . . what we are talking about -- and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
- William James
Found in a recently purchased second-hand copy of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, this quote: written in cursive on notepaper, [I believe] mistakenly attributed to psychologist William James when it should actually be Henry James, his brother and lit critic. Anyway. Interesting little vestige of former book-parentage...
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Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
anenlighteningellipsis reblogged
We live in the dark, we do what we can, the rest is the madness of art.
Henry James, The Middle Years (via mirroir)