It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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