Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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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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