“Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence.”— S.A. Tawks Related Quotes “My dear Keats go on, don’t despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence.”— Benjamin Haydon “There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.”— W.H. Auden “He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life’s feast.”— James Joyce