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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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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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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Always keep a window in the attic open not just cracked: open.
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