One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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