If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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