An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESIt 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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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