However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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