All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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