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 JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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