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- Chilled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
- High
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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.
- Certain Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas are, in truth, force.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In art economy is always beauty.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep experience is never peaceful.
- Ceremony
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- Beautiful Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
However British you may be, I am more British still.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020