It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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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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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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