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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, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.

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

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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

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In art economy is always beauty.

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

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