A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESTo live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
More Henry James Quotes
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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