The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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