He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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