Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESSummer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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