It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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