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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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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.
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There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
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My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.
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It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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