I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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