To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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