All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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 think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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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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