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Art requires, above all things...

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Henry James 312 quotes

All roads lead to Rome, and th...

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

Henry James 312 quotes

Adjectives are the sugar of li...

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

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Little by little, even with ot...

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

Henry James 312 quotes

She had a certain way of looki...

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

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The power to guess the unseen ...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

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Oxford lends sweetness to labo...

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

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...The peculiar air of Oxford-...

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

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...the great merit of the plac...

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

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He was there or was not there:...

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

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A tradition is kept alive only...

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

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Keep making the movements of l...

Keep making the movements of life.

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Live all you can; it's a mista...

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

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I would give all I possess to ...

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 tenths of the people I meet.

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Everything about Florence seem...

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

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The story had held us, round t...

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

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She is like a revolving lighth...

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

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To live only to sufferЂ'only t...

To live only to sufferЂ'only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlargedЂ'it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

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The 'germ,' wherever gathere...

The 'germ,' wherever gathered, has ever been for me, 'the germ of a story,' and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

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Always keep a window in the at...

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

Henry James 312 quotes

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....