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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Art without life is a poor affair.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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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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If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
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England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
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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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The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, Look at me. Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.
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We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.
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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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