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Henry James

"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."

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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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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

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"Silence is the most powerful scream."

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"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

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"When you hear love calling you, don't pretend to be deaf."

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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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"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."
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"She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering."
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"My envy's not dangerous, it wouldn't hurt a mouse."
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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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"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?"
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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."
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