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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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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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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 could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Always keep a window in the attic open not just cracked: open.
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Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.
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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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