It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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