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Henry James Letters: Vol 4 1895-1916

"The part from which I set out was I think, that of the essential loneliness of my life- and it seems to be the port also to which my course finally directs itself! This loneliness, (since I mention it) - what is it still but the deepest thing about one? Deeper about me, at any rate, than anything else: deeper than my 'genius', deeper than my 'discipline,' deeper than my pride, deeper, above all, than the deep countermining of art"

7-13-84

"The rich and the poor are equally free to sleep under bridges, but only the poor attempt to do so." Anatole France

The Catch in the Late Picasso by John Richardson

NY Review of Books July 19.84 p 24

"What interested us of course was what interested Picasso. 'the first in any series,' he said: and then the penultimate one -

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the one that was still open ended, the one before the coup de grâce. But what interested him above all was to study the whole sequence; this way he could follow the - even to him - mysterious workings of his genius, the evolution and transformation of an idea.

Time of Desecration by Alberto Moravia 1978

p 253 ... in life there are no problems, that is objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience whatever the final result might be.

p 359 ... he was what he was convinced of being: a revolutionary; but he knew by instinct that to be a revolutionary the first and most important thing was to behave like a revolutionary.

p 348 ... You know what I felt I was? Not the revolutionary ... but the young girl who, at the end of a long, boring,