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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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I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
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Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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