Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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 one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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