← It is true that had his gifts, such as they were, been acknowledged in his lifetime, he would never have made the bargain I saw him make—that strange bargain whose results have kept him always in the foreground of my memory. 🔊
← And again, "I can always read Milton in the reading-room." 🔊
← I said mildly that I wasn't, either, and murmured that an artist who gave truly new and great things to the world had always to wait long for recognition. 🔊
← Neither he nor his work received the slightest encouragement; but he persisted in behaving as a personage: always he kept his dingy little flag flying. 🔊
← Failure, if it be a plain, unvarnished, complete failure, and even though it be a squalid failure, has always a certain dignity. 🔊
← The gangway between the two rows of tables at the Vingtième was hardly more than two feet wide (Rose and Berthe, in their ministrations, had always to edge past each other, quarreling in whispers as they did so), and any one at the table abreast of yours was virtually at yours. 🔊
← What I wanted to say was, "Any artist who gives truly new and great things to the world has always to wait long for recognition"; but the flattery would not out: 🔊
← "I am a man of business," he said, "and always I would put things through 'right now,' as they say in the States. 🔊
← Again and again I filled his glass, and always, mechanically, he emptied it; but the wine kindled no spark of enterprise in him. 🔊