FridayMar 13, 2026
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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.
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
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.
The final futility of fact.
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.
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.
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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.
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
NovelistCitizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. New York April 15, 1843 London February 28, 1916
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.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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.
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