Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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