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Quote by Henry James
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just

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 youre nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James

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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. – Jeanette Winterson

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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. – Henry David Thoreau

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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. – Alice Koller

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Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead. – Maurice Sendak

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. – Albert Einstein (relativity)

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Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. – Billy Corgan

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