I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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