I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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