Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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