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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?
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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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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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I always want to know the things one shouldn't do. So as to do them? asked her aunt. So as to choose. said Isabel
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
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