She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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