Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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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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 hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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