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.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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