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Her memory's your love. You want no other.

Henry James

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Henricus James
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She is written in a foreign tongue.
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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.
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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
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If you haven't had your life what have you had?
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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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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
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Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
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