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I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper.

Henry James
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

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I have lived too long in foreign parts

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In art economy is always beauty.

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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

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We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

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