You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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