Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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