You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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