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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMES

Character Determination Fact Illustration Incident
However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMES

Believe Country Hope However More Still
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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Deep Depression Downward Earthward Easier Failure Feeling Freer Live Other Realm Restriction Sound
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.
HENRY JAMES

Anything Case Class Health Infatuation Men never Nine Ninety Other People Superstitioyus Themselves Women Young
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Especially Gift Hand Mistake Opportunity Pen Small Squeeze Unqualified
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMES

Alternation Darkness Dazzle Lighthouse Like Pitch Revolve
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
HENRY JAMES

Explore Feel Incapable Kill Live Say Tell Worth
Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Immediate Life Novelist Our Pass Real Wait
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMES

Bleed Butchery Corpse Necessary Perform
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMES

Deal Great History Literature Little Produce Take
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMES

Absorbing Consist Errand Get Happiness Lot One Out Point True
You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMES

Allow Life Ook Punish Want Wish Yourself
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.
HENRY JAMES

Apt Battle Beauty Defiant Enchant Evil Fact Folly Goodness Insolent Life Rare Strong Weak
Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMES

Character Form Like Much Open Pill Rose Tender Tight Try Young
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMES

Fear Himself May Reveal Suspense Turned Viable Word
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMES

Aesthetic Alien Everything Everywhere Outside Solitary

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