He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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