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.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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