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.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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