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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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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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And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
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Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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You must save what you can of your life you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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