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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
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There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.
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No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
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Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
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All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
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