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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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
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I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.
Henry James in The Ambassadors, Book Seventh
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Under 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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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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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.
Henry James in The Ambassadors, Book Eighth
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We work n 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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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.
Henry James in The Ambassadors, Book Ninth
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