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.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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