To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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 this was love, love had been overrated.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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