I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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