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 JAMESUnder 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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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