Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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    Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.

    Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.

    Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

    Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

    The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

    The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

    He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

    He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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