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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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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
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We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.
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A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.
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Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
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...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
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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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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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