A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to real… — Quoted

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“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”

Henry James · Women

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Henry James

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

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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.

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Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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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.

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