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She is written in a foreign tongue.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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