← Not to buy a book of which I had met the author face to face would have been for me in those days an impossible act of self-denial. 🔊
← Soames was an artist, in so far as he was anything, poor fellow! 🔊
← "He has an income. He's all right." 🔊
← Had I known that he really and firmly believed in the greatness of what he as an artist had achieved, I might not have shunned him. 🔊
← I was sure he was not an Englishman, but what was his nationality? 🔊
← Once or twice in the afternoon it had for an instant occurred to me that perhaps his journey was not to be fruitless, that perhaps we had all been wrong in our estimate of the works of Enoch Soames. 🔊
← There's an end of it. I've no will. I'm sealed." 🔊
← "In life and in art," he said, "all that matters is an inevitable ending." 🔊
← "You aren't an artist," he rasped. 🔊
← "And you're so hopelessly not an artist that, so far from being able to imagine a thing and make it seem true, you're going to make even a true thing seem as if you'd made it up. 🔊