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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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You must save what you can of your life you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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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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do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
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One can't judge till one's forty before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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