Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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