Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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