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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Henry James

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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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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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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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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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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..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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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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