She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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