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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― Henry James, The Middle Years

tags: art

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#2

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”
― Henry James

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#3

“Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.”
― Henry James

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#4

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”
― Henry James, The art of fiction

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#5

“I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
― Henry James

tags: judge, judgement, think

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#6

“Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.”
― Henry James

tags: inspirational-life

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#7

“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

tags: love

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#8

“Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.”
― Henry James, Washington Square

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#9

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
― Henry James

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#10

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

tags: war

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#11

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#12

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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#13

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#14

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#15

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education-knowledge

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#16

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth

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#17

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults

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#18

“Every woman is a rebel.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: women-rebel

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#19

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

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#20

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: children, parents

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#21

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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#22

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom

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#23

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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#24

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#25

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#26

“Only the shallow know themselves”
― oscar wilde

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#27

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#28

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#29

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#30

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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