Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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