I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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