She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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