FridayJul 04, 2025
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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.
NovelistCitizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. New York April 15, 1843 London February 28, 1916
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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 favour of doing it.
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.
The final futility of fact.
To take what there 'is', and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this doubtless is the right way to live.
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.
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that, this doubtless is the right way to live.
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