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Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
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We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.
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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
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Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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