One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
More Henry James Quotes
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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