He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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