I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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