To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESYoung 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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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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 I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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