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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.

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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMES

Bleed Butchery Corpse Necessary Perform
You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
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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Advantage Below Down Exailation Happiness Instead Lead Light One Pity Place Seen Sense World
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Cluster Experience Gift Guess Implication Judge Pattern Piece Power Trace Unseen Whole
And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMES

Great Hope Know Remain Strong Stronger
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Always Force History Idea Infinite Make Personality Power Truth Union
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Art Dark Doubt Give Madness Passion Task Work
All intimacies are based on differences.
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All Intimacy Based Difference Result Show
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
HENRY JAMES

Dark Give Hard Motivation Success Work
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMES

Close Detail Make Pulse Rhythm Selection Short Story Succinct Tremendous Very
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Help Humanity More Nothing Respect Shadow
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Aasidously Artist Book Eliminate Ever Himself Page Present Sought
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.
HENRY JAMES

Actual Deep Dig Doubt Forever Life Out Something Taken Wait Without
One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMES

Addiction Before Cruel Eager Forty Hard Ignorant Judge Much Too
Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Good Love Nothing Reason
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Capital Computer Feel Italic Knowledge Think
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Character Determination Fact Illustration Incident
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Believe Defend Devotion Feel God Himself One Trust
The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMES

Art Certain Degree Enlargement Experience Illusion Live Make Measure Mind Miraculous Produce Succes Work
Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMES

Almost Come Great Leave Over Roll Smother Sorrow Us Wave
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMES

Appreciate Appropriate Criticize Intellectual Possession Take
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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Character Form Like Much Open Pill Rose Tender Tight Try Young
Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Anything Change Different might never Thing Wait
I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Everyone Less Like Myself People Think Want
I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMES

Again Effort Old Own Page Scare Struggle Take Unforgettable
I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
HENRY JAMES

Disappoint Ever Every Firm Mine Rock Stand Trust Yours
If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMES

Love More One String Strong Support

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