Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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