Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She 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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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