What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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