He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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