He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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