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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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Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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I have lived too long in foreign parts
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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
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It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
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She is written in a foreign tongue.
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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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