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Too many compromises do sap your strength and energy, and the work compromise was inhibiting your painting to some extent. The focus upon compromise automatically forces you to withhold directness and energy in all of your pursuits. After a while despite yourself you take on to some extent the coloration and attitudes of others who live by compromise entirely, until your own clear-cut ideas and purposes seem more and more unrealistic.

Ruburt has learned to make compromises, not always gracefully, but he has learned that they are sometimes important. He is against them on principle however, and very straightforward in his approach. He saw your life adding up to a circle of compromises – compromises that would cost you your vitality, both of you, in the end.

Now. Up to a certain point compromise can be a beneficial reaction. Beyond that point it can turn against you. The compromise of your job therefore was beneficial to a point. Ruburt feared that the point had been reached beyond which you could not afford to go, while still maintaining those ideas, ideals and goals that were your own.

There is some envy. You did not say that you intended to devote yourself to your own painting, and this should be verbalized. The family compromises began long ago, out of a misguided sense of sympathy, and now to some extent or another will continue. Here you are caught in a compromise of emotions. Ruburt feels this particularly strongly, because he is so sensitive over such relationships to begin with. The situation however is such that almost any clear emotion is automatically denied expression, shunted aside and often replaced completely by an opposite—all under the guise of the idea of (in quotes) “being good and understanding.”

[...] They intend now, even now, to compromise. But a firm stand on Philip’s part will result in compromises that they are not now considering, but that must be made to ensure his comparative happiness within the field.

Any compromise of principle on Philip’s part will be interpreted not as compromise, but as weakness, and will work against the respect with which they now view him.

If he takes a stand as an individual, despite the pressure against him, he will get most of what he desires, and compromises will be worked out to his satisfaction. [...]

[...] If they sense that you will compromise, not in small matters but in basic principles, then you lose this club that you now hold over their heads.

[...] He is not one to compromise, and compromise has caused the physical condition. [...]

([Tom:] “I see, and form a compromise... [...]

Now as a compromise, but not as a composite. [...]

([Theodore:] “I see, and form a compromise—composite.”)

Now as a compromise, but not as a composite. [...]

He is willing to compromise by taking various jobs, but here there are other influences also. [...]

[...] At one time only a freelance selling position, you see, would have been an acceptable compromise.

[...] He was determined, protesting or not, that your work would see the light of day, that despite any compromises its merits would appear.

[...] I do not accept compromises. [...]

I have not compromised. [...]

First of all, I think you will find your present decision, Joseph, to be a good one—that is, your outside work compromise.

[...] Far be it, Philip, that I should forget your weighty problems of compromise and profit. [...]

Do not accept compromises, for you personally cannot live with them for any length of time. [...]

[...] I began wondering how to compromise about the flea situation this summer, now that the rugs in the house are all clean.

[...] You can for example find a comfortable compromise between isolation that is relatively complete, and an apartment in the heart of town.

The will to live can be compromised by doubts, fears, and rationalizations.

[...] The point I stressed—politely—was that at this time I wouldn’t make a move without legal advice, and that I wasn’t going to do anything that would compromise our position versus the insurance company.

[...] Above all, I said, we’re not going to do anything that will compromise our case against the insurance claim. [...]

He does need to put his full weight on his feet more, though last week was a good compromise for now—but overall the body has been more exercised. [...]

[...] Joe B may suddenly “come to” in a strange bedroom, in a compromising position with a woman it certainly seems to him he has never seen before in his life.

He would make no compromises. [...]

[...] Nursery school seemed to offer a compromise between your idea of a regular job, and his own dislike of one. [...]

[...] Compromise is very difficult for him. [...]