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- I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up…
- Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more…
- The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
- The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves…
- 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…
- Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- However British you may be, I am more British still.
- 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…
- I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
- If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
- She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it…
- Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more…
- Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,…
- No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the…
- I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I…
- To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.…
- I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine…
- There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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