It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMESUnder 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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I 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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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