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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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You think too much.' 'I suppose I do but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.
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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 had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
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