She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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 is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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