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Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
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If you haven't had your life what have you had?
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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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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