She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESThree things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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