An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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