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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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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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England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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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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The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
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You think too much.' 'I suppose I do but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.
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do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.
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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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