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

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

I was born in the night of the second and third Of January, ninety-something-or-other, An unreliable year, and the centuries Surround me with fire.

Ist die Literatur vielleicht ein Bär, der seine Pfote leckt, ein bleierner Schlaf nach getaner Pflicht, auf dem Diwan des Arbeitszimmers?

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

the greatest dissipater of our relationship to God is personal sympathy and personal prejudice.

It is one of the greatest achievements of Nietzsche that he confronted science with the problem of the

Nature is to be handeled scientifically, History poetically. Everything else is an impure solution.

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]

psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas

psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will

monotonous repetition of concepts that, by the same token; also reassure the faculty that nothing new is threatening their

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

She (Patricia Higsmith) was a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable, unloving human being…I could never penetrate how any human being could be that relentlessly ugly…. But her books? Brilliant.

These comments have been offered by those who abuse the privilege of being stupid, but I thank them for their interest.

The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge.

Pearl's temper absolutely unbearable, and caused her to break her ivory hair-brush upon her maid's shoulders.

Ouida's first novel was published in three volumes in 1863, though it had previously been released in serial form as Granville de Vigne in The New Monthly magazine from January 1861 to June 1863, as was the common practice at the time. The author was only twenty-four years old at the time, but was later to claim that this was not her first attempt at writing and that her 1867 novel Idalia was written when she was just sixteen.

Ouida is not afraid to play with gender roles and her explorations of femininity in men and masculinity in women, were considered avant-garde

With which he deposited two or three of the penny numbers of fiction on the little table, and regarded himself, it was evident, as a person of princely liberality.

I think if you knew what you did, even the most thoughtless amongst you would not sanction with your praise, and encourage with your coin, the brutality that trains dancing-dogs.