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" To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. "
Henry James
Human
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You
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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've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. "
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" The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. "
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" Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. "
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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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" Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. "
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" There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. "
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" The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. "
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" An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. "
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He
" Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. "
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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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" To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. "
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Own
" One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. "
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Know
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" Life is a predicament which precedes death. "
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" Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. "
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Charming
Meet
" 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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Know
Life
" 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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Circumstances
Hours
" In art economy is always beauty. "
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Always
Economy
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" What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? "
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" Ideas are, in truth, force. "
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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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Beautiful
Me
" It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. "
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Fact
People
" I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. "
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Doing
Simplicity
" I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. "
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" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "
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