What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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