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“Deep experience is never peaceful.”

Henry James · Experience

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Henry James

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Success

Henry James

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Imagination

Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Death

Henry James

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

History