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.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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 takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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