He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESI 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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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