I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESIn 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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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We 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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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