Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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