What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self? - Henry James
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What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?
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Henry James
Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air.
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