I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESWe must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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