I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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