Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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