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Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2
She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2
Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 3
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916)
There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916)
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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