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Ideas are, in truth, force.

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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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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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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
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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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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
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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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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Art without life is a poor affair.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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