He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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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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