Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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