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Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
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All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .
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No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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I have lived too long in foreign parts
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