Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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